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To: Land Shark who wrote (45735)1/8/2014 2:48:41 AM
From: Bilow1 Recommendation   of 86356
 
Hi Land Shark; Regarding the comparison between climate science and the electrical equation V=IR;

It's an excellent comparison. V=IR works so well that billions of electronic devices are sold every year that depend on this equation. Climate science, by comparison is so faulty that they were completely surprised when temperatures didn't rise for 17 years (and counting).

If they ever get climate science up to the level of V=IR it will be a wonderful thing for farmers, they'll have an idea of what kind of weather will be showing up next year.

And V=IR is based on statistics. The difference in statistics between V=IR and climate science is the difference between night and day. With V=IR, testing just a single resistor, you have billions of independent statistical tests available per second (fluctuation dissipation theorem). With climate, you have only a single test and since climate has natural periods on order of a few hundred thousand years it would take many many times the age of the universe to gather the statistics that can be obtained from a single resistor in a second. But we're not restricted to single resistors. We make trillions of them every year. And they work. Using resistors as evidence that science has solved (LOL) the climate problem is ridiculous. What's more, if you take the right graduate physics class they will derive V=IR from first principles (it's done in solid state). That cannot be done with climate science. The first principles derivation does not exist.

-- Carl
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