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A good friend of mine is working on his masters in GIS right now. I was talking to him about climate models the other day (he works with climatologists) and he
by blhack 17y ago
A good friend of mine is working on his masters in GIS right now.
I was talking to him about climate models the other day (he works with climatologists) and he said something along the lines of "fucking climatologists, dude. Tell me what the temperature is going to be tomorrow, or in a week, THEN we'll work on what it is going to be is 40 years".
I'm not saying that he is right or wrong, but I do really feel (feelings != science, I know) that if they (the climatologists) could give us some more accurate predictions of what they weather is going to be next month, I would have less trouble listening to them when they try to tell me what it is going to be in 30 years.
- joseakle 17y agoSome things are easier to predict on the long term, others on the short term. Some on the local level, others on the global level.
- roberto 17y agoWeather forecast is concerned with the value of the temperature (or some other variable) in few days; climate research is interested in the statistics of the temperature in a longer timespan. I can't predict the outcome of the next toss of a coin, but I can say that it'll be 50/50 for the next million years. ;)