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Re:‘Something weird is going on’: Antarctic sea ice stays at... by fragmede on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:46AM (#36919748)
All models are wrong, some are useful.

At the scale we're talking about, with the number of cases we have (one, Earth), all our models are going to become more and more wrong the further off from our current equilibrium we get. But yes, Day After Tomorrow.

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Re:‘Something weird is going on’: Antarctic sea ice stays at... by FrustratedMonky on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:11PM (#36934198)
Yeah. didn't mean to say models are wrong. Just that because they are estimates, that it is likely that some unknown variable, or unknown feedback, could dramatically shift climate more than the model would show. So this worse than expected melting in Antarctica could be some 'disaster-movie-level-unforeseen-event'.
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