Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "The Politics of Climate Change | Steve E. Koonin" video.

  1. "There was a somewhat cynical journalist in the early 20th century named HL Mencken" SOMEWHAT cynical?... You have a gift for understatement, Dr. Koonin.
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  2. "You have to make assumptions about what's happening in each of those boxes [in your computer model]" -- Yes. And each of those boxes is known as a "convection cell". You make assumptions about what's happening in there, because it is formally impossible (yes, I use the term IMPOSSIBLE advisedly) to make an accurate computer model of a convection cell. This is because of sensitivity to small changes in initial conditions -- and you get new initial conditions (including inevitable roundoff errors) every ten minutes or so, for centuries. The term for it is "Chaos", and it was very much in the public consciousness back in the 1990s (when Jurassic Park came out, for those of us old enough to remember that).
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