Climate models don't model reality so well
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:42 pm
I know this has come up elsewhere, but I thought it might be of interest:
http://tinyurl.com/yo5ysz
Climate models predict one thing, observations show another:
http://tinyurl.com/yo5ysz
Climate models predict one thing, observations show another:
This research, published on-line Wednesday in the Royal Meteorological Society’s International Journal of Climatology*, raises new concerns about the reliability of models used to forecast global warming.
“The usual discussion is whether the climate model forecasts of Earth’s climate 100 years or so into the future are realistic,” said the lead author, Dr. David H. Douglass from the University of Rochester. “Here we have something more fundamental: Can the models accurately explain the climate from the recent past? “It seems that the answer is no.”