Watts Up With That March 10
Climate Model Democracy
By Andy May
In my last post, I explained how the IPCC attempts to use climate models to show humans have caused the recent global warming. Models are useful for testing scientific ideas, but they are not proof an idea is correct unless they successfully and accurately predict future events. See the story of Arthur Eddington’s test of Einstein’s theory of relativity"
FOLLOWING THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF CLIMATEBALL, MAY & CHRISTY, PREDICTABLY FOCUS THEIR CRITIQUES OF PREDICTABILITY ON THE LEAST PREDICTABLE CASE
In this case, the focus is the climate skeptics beloved intertropical convergence zone “hot spot.” , where the two hemispheric halves of planetary atmosphere flow, real or modeled, bump into each other with, surprise! , predictably turbulent results.
THE SECOND PRINCIPLE OF CLIMATEBALL THERMODYNAMICS IS THE CONSERVATION OF RHETORICAL ENTROPY, WHICH MAY AND CHRISTY ENFORCE BY FAILING TO MENTION THAT THE 200-300 hPa ITCZ HOT SPOT CONTAINS LESS THAN 1% OF THE MASS OF THE ATMOSPHERE.
THIS PREDICTABLY INCREASES THE CONFUSION OF THE AUDIENCE AND THUS CONSERVES THE ENTROPY OF THE CLIMATEBALL SYSTEM.
