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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ali Chen who wrote (10558)	3/19/2007 2:03:14 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

that even if some climate model would happen to have correct parametrizations, accurate prediction of climate details (fluctuations and "anomalies" from quasi-periodic general behavior) is still entirely impossible, given the current state of knowledge about chaotic dynamical systems. All this "global" coolings and "warmings" are just those little details we are bitching about. This is a mathematically proven property of the system, so it will stand true until the collapse of Sun. So you are saying nobody can model the greenhouse effect at all, without imposing simplifications that destroy the utility of the model, even if they had enough past data to parameterize the model?