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By block43 (anonymous) | Posted September 14, 2008 at 08:19:11

A Smith: It is very apparent that you do not know what you are talking about based on this line: "The point is that climate scientists do not have a good track record predicting anything, except maybe the weather a couple of days out."

For your information a Meteorologist predicts short term weather, while a Climatologist predicts long term weather trends.

Weather predictions are very challenging to calculate as there are a lot of variables. A slight change to one of the variables can drastically change a weather forcast, which is why people often don't believe the weather man.

Same goes for climatology. However, the global ocean temperatures have been rising, as per the predictions of the majority of climatologists along with arctic ice shelves melting (at a higher rate than predicted). Global ocean temperatures would not be rising if the global temperature were not increasing.

Part of the reason things are happening faster then predicted is precisely because, as you say, "All we have so far are results of computer simulations that rely on incomplete data".

It is my understanding that the vast majority of the world's population does not believe in climate change so you, A Smith, are "following the herd" and most undoubtedly with blinders on..

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