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Climatology Blog
Agree
Another common false statement, which some contrarians may also find support for from the Cohn and Lins paper, is that the climate system is not well understood. ... If this statement were generally true, then how could climate scientists make complex models – GCMs – that replicate the essential features of our climate system? The fact that GCMs exist and that they provide a realistic description of our climate system, is overwhelming evidence demonstrating that such statement must be false...
Meteorologist
Mostly Agree
And now my old boss when I was at NASA (as well as James Hansen’s old boss), John Theon, has stated very clearly that he doesn’t believe global warming is manmade…and adding “climate models are useless” for good measure. Even I wouldn’t go quite that far, since I use simple ones in my published research.
Physics Professor, IPCC Lead Author
Agree
One of the things is that the climate system is very complex. It's not as complex as Senator Minchin would make out, it's not the most complex system known to man-the human brain I would probably rate higher, the development of life and so on-because Arrhenius could predict four degrees warming back in 1896 from doubling CO2.
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