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Re:Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Hum... by wyldfire on Thursday November 02, 2017 @05:21PM (#15614399)
> Regarding the data, it's not very conclusive. Given the scale of time over which data has been collected, is it sufficient to create a reliable model and predict the future changes in climate?

I think this part of the debate hinges critically on whether or not you think that core samples can be used to project temperature samples. If so, the data available to the models is vast and conclusive. If you reject that, the amount of climate data we have covers only hundreds of years.

Re:Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Hum... by oarla on Thursday November 02, 2017 @06:20PM (#15614827)
It's more than just accepting the current data.

In order to verify if the current data can predict temperature or other key metrics accurately, more data needs to be collected, which needs time, in the order of a few decades. But a wait of that long, may bring more changes, which would render the model inefficient or incorrect. A very tricky systems optimization problem!