GCM 571 : Final Exam Review

Class – here is what you need to know about climate models for your final exam next week.

  • They can’t model future solar activity
  • They can’t model future ocean cycles (ENSO/PDO/AMO etc.)
  • They can’t model clouds
  • They can’t model sea surface temperatures
  • They can’t model volcanoes
  • They can’t model pollution
  • They can’t model soot from fires
  • They can’t model changes to the Earth’s and Sun’s magnetic fields
  • They can’t model polar ice

But models can tell you what the temperature will be in 100 years within a tenth of a degree, and they can give you an accurate skiing forecast for the year 2090.

That is all you need to know.

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13 Responses to GCM 571 : Final Exam Review

  1. Tony Duncan says:

    And astronomers just invent 80% of the mass of the universe. Fluid scientists can’t model jet engines turbulence accurately. In fact just about every science has more unanswered questions than certainty. And DON’T get me started on evolution. Those biologists know about 1/10 of what climate scientists know in their field.

  2. Chilli says:

    Pwned! Nice post.

  3. * They can’t model future solar activity
    * They can’t model future ocean cycles (ENSO/PDO/AMO etc.)
    * They can’t model clouds
    * They can’t model sea surface temperatures
    * They can’t model volcanoes
    * They can’t model pollution
    * They can’t model soot from fires
    * They can’t model changes to the Earth’s and Sun’s magnetic fields
    * They can’t model polar ice

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    Can they at least model clothes??

  4. timheyes says:

    Steve
    Is this true of all of the IPCC source models or do some of them model some of these?

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