Josh writes: Talking of Climate Models, there is another great Climate Audit post titled “Unprecedented” Model Discrepancy where Richard Betts, once again, provides cartoon inspiration in the comments.
It’s a bit like watching a ball bouncing down a rocky hillside. You can predict some aspects of it behaviour but not others. You can predict it will generally go downhill, and if you see a big rock in it’s path you can be reasonably confident that it will hit it and bounce off, but you can’t predict the size and direction of all the little bounces in between.
BTW, Josh 2015 Calendars are still available.
Why haven’t the alarmists cottoned on to using the perfect excuse?
We have Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and so we should have the [add climate scientist name here] uncertainty principle whereby…
It can be hot and cold at the same time, and then there’s entanglement, too
Quantum Climate, genius.
Enough with the measurements already!
Just let it happen and stop peeking!
The planet could go meshugganah!
Oy Vey!
Maybe if they follow the bouncing ball, it will lead them to their lost climate.