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Article: PREDICTING CLIMATE IS NOT AN EXACT SCIENCE

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August 16, 2009
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There's currently a lot of debate on the subject of global warming: "Yes, it's a proven fact. No, it's a blip in long-term climate behavior. Yes, it's caused by the activities of man. No, it would have happened anyway." It's hard to know what to believe.

I have no answers for you, despite having a doctorate in mechanical engineering. I'm neither a meteorologist, a climate scientist nor an atmospheric physicist. I've never seen the data on which climate theory is based, nor have I seen any climate models. And even if I had, I don't have the background to understand them.

I am, however, familiar with scientific models in general, and I know that scientific models can be broken into two basic ...

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