Climate Policy

[kandrathe]

So do I. But some things are too big (hurricanes), too small (quarks), too fast (shock fronts), or too slow (universes) to bring into the lab. Then you make a goulash of theory, experiment, and computer models and do your best. But the more you know and the more honest you are, the less you trust those results.

With climate at least, we can see an event, like Mt. Saint Helen exploding, and then measure local atmospheric change and then observe how that effects the local and global climate. Then, you have studies, like contrails missing during 9-11, that seem like good opportunities to study change, but fail to factor in all the variables. The biggest problem is repeatability.

I thought this was a funny excerpt from the article; <blockquote> "After hearing the news, Dr Forster said it was every scientist's dream to win a Nobel Prize before adding: "It's perhaps a little deflating though, that one man and his PowerPoint show has as much influence as the decades of dedicated work by so many scientists."</blockquote>