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Is the data fed into the IPCC computer climate models accurate?
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Global Warming
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The earth's climate is described with GCMs (General Circulation Models or Global Climate Models). These GCMs are fed data such as the temperature and CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and ocean across time and throughout the globe, without which predictions would be impossible. Some skeptics claim that there are problems with the accuracy of the data itself.
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Denis Rancourt
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Determining an average of a quantity (Earth surface temperature) that is everywhere different and continuously changing with time at every point, using measurements at discrete times and places (weather stations), is virtually impossible; in that the resulting number is highly sensitive to the chosen extrapolation method(s) needed to calculate (or rather approximate) the average.
27 Feb 2007
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