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Old 12-03-2017, 03:02 PM
 
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The article you linked shows 3 possible scenarios, A, B, and C. Scenario A goes up. Scenario B goes down, then up because it includes the Mt. Pinatubo cooling (he changed his model when the volcano erupted. That's called "cheating"). Scenario C is relatively flat then goes downward. So no matter what direction the global temperatures actually went, one of his scenarios would have been correct. How is that valid? It is just another trick. The model evaluation document linked at the bottom of the article states, "The dominant external influence is incoming solar radiation, but many aspects of the simulated climate play an important role in modulating regional temperature such as the presence of clouds and the complex interactions between the atmosphere and the underlying land, ocean, snow, ice and biosphere." In laymen's terms, that means any model must predict those interactions. This is where the validation falls apart. The evaluation document lays out the many uncertainties, by their own admission.
Changing a model when new information is available is what scientists do. It’s not cheating. It’s how things get more accurate over time. We learn more and adjust accordingly. The willingness to incorporate new information and change a model is what makes something more believable. It’s a stark contrast to the anti global warming, anti science group who have their minds made up, do not look at new information, and continue their ostrich like approach to climate science.
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Old 12-03-2017, 04:33 PM
 
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Changing a model when new information is available is what scientists do. It’s not cheating. It’s how things get more accurate over time. We learn more and adjust accordingly.....
This is somewhat true, SkyDog. However, when you change a model to incorporate something that is completely unpredictable, like a volcanic eruption, then claim the new model is now accurate, that is not validating. More like your comment about "confirmation bias". No model can accurately predict the effects of such large, unpredictable events. The modeler was only able to get a reasonably accurate prediction (Scenario B) by incorporating an completely unpredictable event after it happened. That is cheating, not validation.

That is like predicting in July that Team X is going to win the Super Bowl next February. Then when the starting quarterback for Team X goes down (unpredictable event), you change the model. As the season goes on, and injuries pill up (more unpredictable events), you keep changing the model. Finally, in January, you are down to 2 teams (Y and Z), so you have a 50% chance of being right. How does that validate the model as it existed in July? It is fine if the model is better now. But now use it to predict the next year's Super Bowl winners. See? Good luck with that.

There is no "head in the sand" from us anti-AGW folks. We just want, demand actually, a return to the sound scientific principles that have existed for centuries. For AGW, it is probably too late. This has become a crazy religion with massive amounts of money and power at stake. "Believe or be cast down ye' sinners".
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Old 12-03-2017, 05:35 PM
 
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This is somewhat true, SkyDog. However, when you change a model to incorporate something that is completely unpredictable, like a volcanic eruption, then claim the new model is now accurate, that is not validating. More like your comment about "confirmation bias". No model can accurately predict the effects of such large, unpredictable events. The modeler was only able to get a reasonably accurate prediction (Scenario B) by incorporating an completely unpredictable event after it happened. That is cheating, not validation.

That is like predicting in July that Team X is going to win the Super Bowl next February. Then when the starting quarterback for Team X goes down (unpredictable event), you change the model. As the season goes on, and injuries pill up (more unpredictable events), you keep changing the model. Finally, in January, you are down to 2 teams (Y and Z), so you have a 50% chance of being right. How does that validate the model as it existed in July? It is fine if the model is better now. But now use it to predict the next year's Super Bowl winners. See? Good luck with that.

There is no "head in the sand" from us anti-AGW folks. We just want, demand actually, a return to the sound scientific principles that have existed for centuries. For AGW, it is probably too late. This has become a crazy religion with massive amounts of money and power at stake. "Believe or be cast down ye' sinners".
The money is on the denier side. It’s upsetting to the fossil fuel economy. That’s why this is so political.

There is not another topic where the experts in a field are so much on one side and it is not taken as common knowledge.

The deniers are led by scientists who are not climate experts and are funded by corporations with agendas that are hurt by acknowledging that humans cause global warming.
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Old 12-03-2017, 07:27 PM
 
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... The deniers are led by scientists who are not climate experts and are funded by corporations with agendas that are hurt by acknowledging that humans cause global warming.

Again, there is some truth to this - ON BOTH SIDES. Do you know how many corporations are making billions off of AGW? Al Gore himself is one of the biggest profiteers of AGW. If AGW were to be proven wrong, he would lose millions of dollars (look up Generation Investment Management).

But it doesn't matter. The science of climatology has become completely unscientific. Long established principles and processes have been discarded in order to achieve a political goal (more central planning socialism, less individualist capitalism). If bullfrog biologists are skirting the scientific process, like not validating their experiments (or models), then it is incumbent on chemists, physicists, geologists, and yes, other bullfrog biologists to hold them accountable and bring the field of bullfrog biology back into the realm of intellectual objectivity. That needs to happen in climatology. Maybe then we can have an intelligent discussion about AGW. Until then, it is just mysticism disguised as science.
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Old 12-03-2017, 07:45 PM
 
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Again, there is some truth to this - ON BOTH SIDES. Do you know how many corporations are making billions off of AGW? Al Gore himself is one of the biggest profiteers of AGW. If AGW were to be proven wrong, he would lose millions of dollars (look up Generation Investment Management).

But it doesn't matter. The science of climatology has become completely unscientific. Long established principles and processes have been discarded in order to achieve a political goal (more central planning socialism, less individualist capitalism). If bullfrog biologists are skirting the scientific process, like not validating their experiments (or models), then it is incumbent on chemists, physicists, geologists, and yes, other bullfrog biologists to hold them accountable and bring the field of bullfrog biology back into the realm of intellectual objectivity. That needs to happen in climatology. Maybe then we can have an intelligent discussion about AGW. Until then, it is just mysticism disguised as science.
This simply isn’t true. There is plenty of peer reviewed science available. It has nothing to do with socialism.

The national economies that rely on it and trillions of dollars a year that the fossil fuel industry is responsible for are fighting the good scientists and creating doubt where frankly there shouldn’t be any. The money on the side of fossil fuels is so many factors higher than anyone who stands to profit with renewables right now. It’s not even close.
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