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A Sophomoric Look at Climate Change
American Thinker.com ^ | July 16, 2019 | Gordon Wysong

Posted on 07/16/2019 8:20:05 AM PDT by Kaslin

My nephew completed freshman year in college, and he was excited to have qualified for the climate science track. With his prowess in algebra on display, he explained simultaneous equations to me. If A+B=9, no one knows the value of A or B. BUT, if you also know that A–B=3, voila! Now you know both values. The first equation is useless without the second, and the second is useless without the first. All you need is the same number of equations as you have variables.

On my nephew's first day of Climate 201, the learned professor whetted his appetite by telling him this elite class would develop a climate change model.

He shared with me his list of variables: CO2 in the atmosphere, H2O in the atmosphere, fluorocarbons in the atmosphere, snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere, forest fire sizes, orbit wobble of the Earth, sunspot activity, core heat loss to the surface, volcanic activity, continental drift, algae growth in the oceans, fossil fuel combustion, shifting of the magnetic north pole location. His imagination was running wild, thinking of the complexity he would resolve in only one semester.

When he turned in the list, and it was compared to others, he found he had missed forty or so other variables. Not to worry: The class now had a compilation that was certain to lead to an answer. They began the remaining work.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal
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1 posted on 07/16/2019 8:20:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Matrices are your friend
But garbage in, garbage out


2 posted on 07/16/2019 8:23:08 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Kaslin

Excellent Article!

And given the realities of today, I can’t tell if it was hyperbole, sarcasm, satire, or the actual truth.


3 posted on 07/16/2019 8:26:06 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Kaslin

Climate 201... Elite class...

Sophomore level class is idiot level


4 posted on 07/16/2019 8:27:34 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Kaslin
Algore was one of the enlightened ones no doubt..............💀
5 posted on 07/16/2019 8:28:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: SoConPubbie

Interesting.

Is Climate Change even scientifically viable? Given the scientific facts, can it even be proved?


6 posted on 07/16/2019 8:29:39 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Not scientifically viable given two independent studies, one out of Finland (i believe) and one out of Japan that conclusively stated that Man-made climate change has never existed during the last 50 years and, if I remember the article posted here on FreeRepublic correctly, that any increases in temperature were a direct cause of some type of action from cloud cover.

I’ll see if I can dig up the link.


7 posted on 07/16/2019 8:32:18 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Kaslin

Where are the “correction factors” added to measured data to make it match the computer models?


8 posted on 07/16/2019 8:34:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Kaslin

Well, almost.

“All you need is the same number of equations as you have variables,” like it says in the article, is not quite enough. The equations have to be linearly independent of one another to provide a unique solution, i.e., if one or more of the equations is a linear transformation of one of the others, then the solution is back to indeterminate.


9 posted on 07/16/2019 8:46:11 AM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: Kaslin

I think the article alludes to a “blackboxed” approach...no matter what you feed into the “consensus” model, it’ll always show warming (or “change,” depending on the day.) We’ll never see the climate change scientists’ model, but they’ll let us feed it whatever questions we might have.


10 posted on 07/16/2019 8:51:23 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: HangnJudge

Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.

Mathematics is a tool, but it must be used appropriately.


11 posted on 07/16/2019 8:59:57 AM PDT by alloysteel (Nowhere in the Universe is there escape from the consequences of the crime of stupidity.)
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To: HangnJudge

Cool thing about multi-variate equations, they all vary- and time is often not included in any variable- IOWs, the time variable ( rate of XX over t sub 1, sub 2 subxxx) is then impossible to correlate to other variables that are varying at some other rate of T...

As the Creator God puts it (mildly) “My ways are not your ways, My thoughts are higher than your thoughts”....

But, the god this world is actively working to get man to believe the lie(s), and succeeding in many areas.


12 posted on 07/16/2019 8:59:58 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: SoConPubbie
Lots of scientific evidence against this hoax here.

 

13 posted on 07/16/2019 9:04:24 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Kaslin

I wonder what the university charged for that course? Did the skeptic who left get his money back?


14 posted on 07/16/2019 9:08:15 AM PDT by RideForever
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To: Kaslin

The answer to the climate change equation is 42, and thanks for all the fish.


15 posted on 07/16/2019 9:14:42 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Lou L

Imagine Klaatu going into the Classroom and erasing then correcting the equations on the Chalkboard.

Of course I’m taking about the Michael Rennie Klaatu, not that idiotic Globull Warming TDTESS Remake with the silly Keanu Reeves Klaatu.


16 posted on 07/16/2019 9:18:44 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Socialism is a gateway Ideology.)
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To: HangnJudge
Matrices actually get used in the business world when we can define the values of labor, machine time, raw materials and the outputs which we want maximized. I think they were originally invented to plan meals in military settings.

But the article is a real hoot about how so-called climate scientists first draw their conclusions and then mine data to support them. I call it the reverse scientific method and it is a major tool in the liberal toolbox.

17 posted on 07/16/2019 9:26:12 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Bookmark


18 posted on 07/16/2019 9:30:24 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: SoConPubbie
Excellent Article!

And given the realities of today, I can’t tell if it was hyperbole, sarcasm, satire, or the actual truth.

All of the above.

19 posted on 07/16/2019 9:31:09 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist mooselimb savages, today.)
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To: SoConPubbie
Excellent Article!

And given the realities of today, I can’t tell if it was hyperbole, sarcasm, satire, or the actual truth.

All of the above.

20 posted on 07/16/2019 9:32:08 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist mooselimb savages, today.)
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