[jimfree]

“In sum, a strategy must recognize what is possible. In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled nonlinear chaotic system, and therefore that long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”

This quote should show up in every post about AGW written. It should be required like that warning on the side of cigarette packs.

Thanks very much Ernest. The global warming alarmists are perfectly content with ignoring variables - chief among them sun activity, cloud formations, and precipitation. We go from a coupled nonlinear chaotic system to one of those with inconvenient phenomena ignored. Inconvenient truth indeed.

[dsrtsage]

“In sum, a strategy must recognize what is possible. In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled nonlinear chaotic system, and therefore that long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”

“This quote should show up in every post about AGW written. It should be required like that warning on the side of cigarette packs.”

You should mention that this quote is directly from the IPCC 4th assessment report.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Right!