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> This is a climate scientist saying (without justification) that a century of physicists missed the obvious trivial explanation. A little humility is in order.
by naasking 4y ago
> This is a climate scientist saying (without justification) that a century of physicists missed the obvious trivial explanation. A little humility is in order.
He's a mathematical physicist [1] that happens to work on non-linear dynamical systems that apply to climate models. You know, like the non-linear dynamics seen in a quantum measurement. Maybe don't be so dismissive. He won the Dirac gold medal for theoretical physics in 2014, for instance.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Palmer_(physicist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Palmer_(physicist)