1974 : Princeton Researchers Explained That Climate Model Forecasts Are Just “Hand Waving”

3 Responses to 1974 : Princeton Researchers Explained That Climate Model Forecasts Are Just “Hand Waving”

1. John B., M.D. says:

   January 7, 2014 at 8:36 pm

   Well, they adjusted the data to fit their now more sophisticated computer models, so it must be the truth.

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2. Sundance says:

   January 7, 2014 at 8:54 pm

   Speaking of hands

   You know it’s cold when liberals actually have their hands in their own pockets…….. 🙂

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3. Psalmon says:

   January 7, 2014 at 9:01 pm

   Then he made a 40 year career out of it:

   Most known for:
   Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Manabe’s research group published seminal papers using these models to explore the sensitivity of Earth’s climate to changing greenhouse gas concentrations. These papers formed a major part of the first global assessments of climate change published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

   Other important work done by Manabe included the suggestion that climate might have more than one stable state and the demonstration that switches between such states could be induced in a relatively realistic model by melting ice caps.

   The research group started by Manabe is today known as the GFDL Climate Dynamics and Prediction Group.

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