Understanding the relationship between climate and weather is important in climate science. Here’s NASA: The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere “behaves” over relatively long periods of time. And again: Climate [...]
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Is climate more than weather? Is weather just noise?
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Those Hazy Skeptics at the IPCC
Posted in Climate Models on December 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Back in the day, the IPCC published its 3rd assessment report and declared a high confidence in the science of doom – humans have caused the unprecedented modern warming and the future is very bleak. In their view the science was well enough understood that climate models could be relied upon – especially as they [...]
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Understanding the Flaw
Posted in Climate Models, Commentary on December 13, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The debate about climate change is a very polarized one. Understanding the points of view of people who disagree with you is essential to making progress. Even more importantly, you should understand the arguments that summarize the best of the opposite point of view. Much that is written in the general media is the “polarized [...]
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