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Comment Re:Every week there's a new explanation of the hia (Score 1) 465

ENSO has no long--term effect on climate. ENSO is a short term variation.

THE PURPOSE of models is to do forecasting. So far, no models can accurately project the behavior of ENSO.

The purpose of the climate models is to forecast climate, not short-term events that have no effect on the trend.

ENSO is irrelevant to climate, it's interesting for weather forecasting.

Comment Re:Every week there's a new explanation of the hia (Score 1) 465

If ENSO cannot be predicted to any great degree (it cannot), yet it has a major effect on climate models, and now another effect is found that is claimed to have a far greater effect than ENSO, what then?

ENSO has no long--term effect on climate. ENSO is a short term variation.

(People who obsess about ENSO seem not to have heard of conservation of energy).

Comment Re:Every week there's a new explanation of the hia (Score 1) 465

please link to an example of "sketchy science" that has been proved wrong by more solid, peer-reviewed science.

I know you're just smacking down a troll, but climate models have been over-estimating warming for years, as demonstrated by this science.

From the commentary:

Ultimately the causes of this inconsistency will only be understood after careful comparison of simulated internal
climate variability and climate model forcings with observations from the past two decades

Recent papers have investigated this and found that when either observed ENSO conditions are forced on the model, or model runs are picked whose simulated ENSO matches observed ENSO there is better agreement with observed temperatures.

By the way, the models don't just overestimate warming since 1997ish, they also underestimate it before 1997.

Comment Re:let me correct that for you. (Score 1) 619

The commonality amongst the early fascists could be seen in the name itself. A symbol of sticks bound together to product something strong, also the symbol of authority used by Roman Caesars. Thus a focus on a strong-man style central government, strong nationalism with a militaristic leaning.

Yup, just look at any US 10 cent coin struck between 1916 and 1945.

http://www.thecoinspot.com/10_cent_winged_liberty.php

Comment Re:News from two centuries ago (Score 1) 667

News from two centuries ago - "Yorktown captured by French Terrorists".
Looks stupid doesn't it? That's what you get when you oversimplify these things and assume that the backers are equivalent to the perpetrators. The backers in this case may be just as unpleasant as Napolean.

Assuming you mean Napoleon, what the hell does he have to do with Yorktown?

Are you talking about the siege of Yorktown in 1781?

And Napoleon who took power in 1799?

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