|
Post by principled on Nov 24, 2010 18:02:58 GMT 1
Enquirer
Far be it from me to intervene, but the issue is not as simple as you seem to think. There are two major unknowns in the climate mapping models used, which render them less certain than many climatologists stated early in the AGW saga. These are: 1) The effects of cloud cover. The mapping of this is complex and the grid structure used by the climate models too coarse to take them fully into account. 2) The effect of heat transfer through convection to the upper atmosphere.
I have no doubt that most scientists are up front and honest, but as a group they are no more honest or reliable than any other cross section of humanity. They may not have wished for their models to be marketed by interested groups as being 100% gospel, but that was their political naivety.
Now, years into the debate, we all realise that those models are the best we can produce, but do not provide us with the certainties we were once told they did.
P
|
|