Comment Re:The last sentence in the summary... (Score 1) 232
It sure was no record hot summer here in Manitoba, and last winter was the coldest since the late 1800s.
It sure was no record hot summer here in Manitoba, and last winter was the coldest since the late 1800s.
Given how bad their predictions are I don't lose any sleep.
I'll revisit when and if they actually have some track record of accuracy.
Don't let me interrupt your panic, though.
You know that's one well in a potentially huge field, right?
Though 11 days of worldwide energy from one well is impressive in it's own right........
Why wouldn't someone from Iowa just buy the Tesla from a neighboring state and import it...
For the current high end cars Tesla makes this probably works most of the time. They are fighting it, but it is not killing them. If you can afford one you can afford a bit extra to fly somewhere else to test and/or pay for delivery. Your own state still may or may not screw you on the taxes.
As they seek to move down market to the masses that will not work as well. Their current business model is not suffering, but their future one will.
Historically a warm climate has been better for humans than a cold one.
Hypothesis, prediction, and observation. You know, actual science.
Except for the prediction part, which is pretty bad.
I would not want climate scientists as my investment advisers.
Canada has oil we would be happy to sell you.
Naive modeling shows that substantially increasing the CO2 concentrations from current levels of the atmosphere shift the equilibrium temperatures of the planet substantially. More complex models incorporating other known factors, within the entire range of their uncertainty levels, show the same thing.
Except the models almost all overestimate warming when compared to reality over time. I'd expect reality to be more in the middle of the bell curve. The fact it is not tells me there is something wrong with the whole ensemble of models. And I can guess what it is.
Unfortunately, nature has not been cooperating
Sums it up well. Chrichton is completely right when he said science needs to reflect real world observations.
Unfortunately, it's very clear that climate science cannot accurately predict what climate will do at annual or decadal timescales. They want you to believe they can do so at timescales you won't live to verify.
Sorry, appeals to authority won't work here. Come back when you have some track record - any at all - of meaningful predictive ability.
BTW Your models are lame. As a computer geek they are embarrassing.....
not everyone who works for the NSA is a douchebag.
I'm sure most of them still are, but this is encouraging nonetheless.
And a huge number of people, not just in America but indeed all around the world, persist in having open fires, despite the EPA regulating wood stoves and fireplaces.
Bastards don't know Thermageddon is upon us. You would think they would not need fires.
Neither can turkeys apparently.
Blinky, is that you?
selling "carbon credits". It's like the Pope selling indulgences.
He does a world class job of advertising too.
Of course anyone who could actually predict climate could be a multi-billionaire with ease.
Instead they apparently sell carbon credits.
Or just bookmark Glasnost http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/t... and test regularly.
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