Tag: climate models
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Are climate change models becoming more accurate and less reliable?
Scientific American: Are climate change models becoming more accurate and less reliable? One of the perpetual challenges in my career as a modeler of biochemical systems has been the need to balance accuracy with reliability. This paradox is not as strange as it seems. Typically when you build a model you include a lot of…
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“10 Things That Make Climate Models Tough to Build (and Understand)” Don Bosch
Evangelical Environmentalist (Don Bosch): 10 Things That Make Climate Models Tough to Build (and Understand) With all of the discussion about man-made CO2 and global warming you may not know about other things that affect climate models. My goal is not to discredit climate science at all, but to simply lay out a number of…
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Why So Gloomy?
Newsweek: Why So Gloomy? April 16, 2007 issue – Judging from the media in recent months, the debate over global warming is now over. There has been a net warming of the earth over the last century and a half, and our greenhouse gas emissions are contributing at some level. Both of these statements are…