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Yes, but I haven't seen specific predictions of local chills, only post factum explanations. Consider an excerpt from the article you posted: "2007 started with
by coffeemug 17y ago
Yes, but I haven't seen specific predictions of local chills, only post factum explanations. Consider an excerpt from the article you posted: "2007 started with record breaking temperature anomalies throughout the world. In parts of Europe, winter and spring ranked amongst the warmest ever recorded, with anomalies of more than 4°C above the long-term monthly averages for January and April." They're using a short term local warming as evidence for global warming here, however the original article clearly states you can't do that (and explains the chill away in this manner).
- fretlessjazz 17y ago"Yes, but I haven't seen specific predictions of local chills, only post factum explanations." This is actually a textbook difference between Climate and Weather. We're better at predicting the former than latter.
- coffeemug 17y agoAre we? Is there a study that compares a sophisticated climate prediction model with a trivial model (one that simply adds the delta from the previous two years, for example) and demonstrates that in comparing each result to the real temperature the former gives a statistically significantly better result than the latter? That's the only way to know if we're any good at predicting climate. If you can point me to a study on this (or some review study) I'd really love to take a look.
- anamax 17y ago> This is actually a textbook difference between Climate and Weather. We're better at predicting the former than latter. According to the text book, warm days are climate while cold ones are weather.