A Quote by Freeman Dyson
Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.
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However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures.
How reliable are the computer [climate] models on which possible future climates are based? Not very. All will agree that the task of modeling climate is vast, because of the estimates that have to be made and the rubbery quality of much of the data.
Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and deliberations appear credible. They allow them to bamboozle the public because computer models are a complete mystery to most people.
A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.
...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full of things like clouds and vegetation and soil and dust which the models describe very poorly.
The only basis for even talking about global warming is the predictions spewed out by computer models. The only quote/unquote "evidence" of global warming is what models are predicting the climate and the weather will be in the next 50 to 100 years. Now, what those models spit out is only as good as the data that's put in, and it's an absolute joke. In terms of science, it's a total joke. There is no warming, global or otherwise!
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.
The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.
It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.
The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.
I started my career counting diamonds and schlepping gold jewelry around the world. The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.
I am arguing that climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales.
Prime Minister Cameron says he wants to be the greenest government ever, but the definition of green is immature... I don't deny for a moment that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but there are so many other factors that affect climate. It is more complicated than the computer models that we are using. What the truth is, nobody knows.
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