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Where does this leave us in understanding public policy related to climate issues? Do we have enough understanding of climate influences to know which influence

• btilly 14y ago
  What I read from that is that the stories we tell ourselves about why climate happens tend to be massively oversimplified and miss major things. I read absolutely nothing to cause me to trust detailed computer models more or less. My belief about computer models is that they are crap for detail, but still indicative enough at the level we're trying to use them for to be indicative. If you want to learn more, and to dig in yourself, http://www.azimuthproject.org/azimuth/show/HomePage http://www.azimuthproject.org/azimuth/show/HomePage is a useful starting place.
• ChuckMcM 14y ago
  It has been posited in the press and in movies, that a warmer earth would melt the poles which would reduce salinity and then 'stop' the flow of the Gulf Stream current. That would plunge Europe into an ice age. Deeper analysis casts doubt on both sides of this proposition, either a) that the gulf stream current would stop, and b) if it did, that it would cause an ice age in Europe. Living in California we've had about three major theories about the impact of the pacific current applied and then found wanting on California weather. There is an effect, but the extent that the weather is affected is not easy to predict.