Monday, July 06, 2009

Climate Models Like Fashion Models: Hot One Day; Not The Next

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Marc Morano at Climate Depot has a most interesting post:

U.S. Government Scientist's Shock Admission: 'Climate Model Software Doesn't Meet the Best Standards Available'

Plus: Another Gov't Scientist admits 'chaotic component of climate system...is not predictable beyond two weeks, even theoretically'

Monday, July 06, 2009By Marc MoranoClimate Depot

Two prominent U.S. Government scientists made two separate admissions questioning the reliability of climate models used to predict warming decades and hundreds of years into the future.

Gary Strand, a software engineer at the federally funded National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), admitted climate model software “doesn't meet the best standards available” in a comment he posted on the website Climate Audit.

“As a software engineer, I know that climate model software doesn't meet the best standards available. We've made quite a lot of progress, but we've still quite a ways to go,” Strand wrote on July 5, 2009, according to the website WattsUpWithThat.com.

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