Re:Looks like I’m going on FoxNews today because it’s cold o...
by Locke1689 on Wednesday January 06, 2010 @02:26PM
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People tend to confuse climate and weather, i.e., it's cold out today so there isn't global warming and "we can't predict the weather a week in advance, how can we predict climate years in advance??!11!".
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Re:Looks like I’m going on FoxNews today because it’s cold o...
by cantastoria on Wednesday January 06, 2010 @05:17PM
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wrt to you last "confused person" question. Has there been any study of how accurately climate models can predict climate (e.g. average global temperature) even five years out from a given year?
Just to clarify...
If I gave a climate model all the temp data from 1888-1990 and then said ok, what's the AGT in 1995? Would it be correct? I guess the difficult part would be finding a model that hasn't already been modified so it would be correct for 1995. You'd have to use the 1990 version of the modeling software.