Comment on Assessing climate model software quality by Latimer Alder
‘modellers have ‘learned to live with a lower standard’ of code and development processes simply because they are good enough to produce legitimate scientific results’ Would I be even more than...
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Comment on Assessing climate model software quality by Latimer Alder
And in the UK we have only one ‘Monopolies Commission’.
View ArticleComment on Assessing climate model software quality by Jeff Corwith
I’ll toss a couple of semi-random observations about modeling. These arise out of my perspective as one who builds and uses models of a different sort. -(Probably overly obvious but nevertheless): It’s...
View ArticleComment on Assessing climate model software quality by Girma
The models must represent the observed data accurately. The current models don’t. They don’t have cyclic component. They don’t have turning points and point of inflections. Until they do that, they...
View ArticleComment on Assessing climate model software quality by Latimer Alder
‘the models may with all likelihood be far from good at predictions, that doesn’t mean that they aren’t useful. Just developing an understanding of the drivers for prediction performance (while fully...
View ArticleComment on Assessing climate model software quality by Bart R
Mr. Orssengo You do realize that comparing like-to-like would mean you’d be obliged to fit the climate model projections with exactly the same broad (+/- 0.2C) variance bands you allow for your own,...
View ArticleComment on Assessing climate model software quality by Bart R
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1910/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1940/to:1970/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1970/to:2000/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2000/trend/offset:-0.1/detrend:0.031/plot/...
View ArticleComment on Assessing climate model software quality by David L. Hagen
Wayne2 <b>Buggy:</b> All models are buggy - we appear to have little idea by how much. Thus the need for independent verification & validation. <b>Chaotic:</b> Weather and...
View ArticleComment on Assessing climate model software quality by bob droege
“This is all pathetically and tragically amateur.” And tragically and pathetically not related to reality.
View ArticleComment on Assessing climate model software quality by Bart R
Girma | April 16, 2012 at 9:57 am | One imagines if the actual global temperature had real turning points and points of inflection, was actually cyclic instead of reflecting the sums of many recurring...
View ArticleComment on Assessing climate model software quality by Jim Cripwell
Norm, I understand what you are saying. I have a slightly different way of looking at the problem. Someone has to use the model to try and do something. That someone is responsible for the whole ball...
View ArticleComment on Assessing climate model software quality by Bart R
You know, nothing’s stopping individual skeptics from producing their own models to challenge the ones they don’t like; with distributed computing power over the Internet, the only real obstacle is...
View ArticleComment on Assessing climate model software quality by Jim2
Roy Spencer and Willis E. have taken a stab at the “quantifying uncertainty” bit as defined in the summary. They were generally met with cat calls, heckling, and guffaws. But they have the right idea...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 4/13/12 by Jim2
This may be an example of developments that pessimistic people, as some here tend to be, wouldn’t anticipate. “Coskata, together with its strategic collaborator Total Petrochemicals, is also developing...
View ArticleComment on Psychological(?) effects of global warming by sunshinehours1
A message for Web the Oil Drum Shill” Every old, declining oil field can potentially be rejuvenated by fracking. “Oil companies have breathed new life into the Cardium in recent years, using newer...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 4/13/12 by WebHubTelescope
That is incorrect. The oceans act like a high capacity heat sink when stimulated by a sustained thermal forcing function. If no thermal forcing function exists then it will maintain whatever steady...
View ArticleComment on The Internet: World War 3.0 (?) by Arcs_n_Sparks
This is actually why the smart grid is a bad idea. The Chinese cannot easily attack the dumb grid we have today.
View ArticleComment on The Internet: World War 3.0 (?) by Arcs_n_Sparks
This topic actually goes back to why the U.S. has a Constitution: the balance between anarchy and tyranny. If the internet geeks work it out correctly, the outcome will be the same. Rule of law,...
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