To: koan who wrote (786026 ) 5/22/2014 11:52:26 PM From: i-node Respond to >> Guys like Einstein live for the science.The important thing is not to stop questioning ." -- Einsteinoriginal climate scientist, and certainly among the most important:Then in the late 1970s, he got involved with early research on climate change at the Institute for Energy Analysis in Oak Ridge, Tenn. That research, which involved scientists from many disciplines, was based on experimentation. The scientists studied such questions as how atmospheric carbon dioxide interacts with plant life and the role of clouds in warming . . . “I just think they don’t understand the climate,” he said of climatologists. “Their computer models are full of fudge factors.” A major fudge factor concerns the role of clouds. The greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide on its own is limited. To get to the apocalyptic projections trumpeted by Al Gore and company, the models have to include assumptions that CO-2 will cause clouds to form in a way that produces more warming. “The models are extremely oversimplified,” he said. “They don’t represent the clouds in detail at all. They simply use a fudge factor to represent the clouds.”
