On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:18:46 GMT,
k.chel...@yahoo.com (Fredric
L. Rice) wrote:
>
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/san-onofre-computer-modeling.html
>
> This might interest the climage change deniers who believe that the
> projected consequences of extant global warming are wrong. It also
> might be of interest to people who actually know what they're talking
> about in the climate change arena.
>
> What we have here is a bifurcation, the difference between what
> happens when scientists working in collaboration determine truth by
> using computer modeling, and when corporate entities working in
> proprietary secret (and thus lack peer review outside of their own
> tight-nit bubble of corporate influence) use computer modeling.
>
> Overwhelmingly the best modeling of reality results when all the
> available information, data, and algorythemic processes are out in
> the public domain, subject to scientific review. This is why computer
> modeling of climate change consequences obtain probabistic ballpark
> estimations of reality.
Yes, all compuer models include error bars. It is still amazing to