Comment 26473

By Scientist (anonymous) | Posted September 09, 2008 at 21:25:03

Sorry Smith but I've just got to call BS on your comment. You've mixed up mystical pantheism (ooh, the universe chooses to thwart our plans!) with a lay reading of Newtonian mathematics that is, to put it bluntly, flat-out wrong.

ALL of science is making models and then testing our models against observation and experiment to see if the empirical data match the prediction. In complex systems like the climate, computers help us to model lots of mutually interacting factors more accurately because there's just too much going on to capture it all without a computer.

If you refuse to accept modeling in climatology, why do you accept modeling in Newtonian mechanics (even though you clearly don't understand it)?

Also, "How many more summers with moderate temperatures do we need before you just admit your complete ignorance?" Last summer was one of the hottest on record. This summer was an outlier granted, but trends in complex systems run longer than just a year or two. All you've demonstrated in your comment is you're own ignorance of how science works.

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