[Shermy]

"Our goal as scientists is to collect hard data to verify what the model is telling us."

LOL! Naturally inventing the model first is handsome money sitting in an office.

"We used computer-generated simulations to get this research result."

Whatever.

[Shermy]

"Naturally inventing the model first is handsome way to make money sitting in an office."

edit.

[Leo Carpathian]

"However, findings from our simulations suggest a counterintuitive phenomenon. Some of the melt in the Arctic may be balanced by increases in sea ice volume in the Antarctic."

Maybe they are stooopid and have nothing better to do. Simulate this!

[jpl]

"Mr. Chairman, technically you're correct that the real-world results aren't completely in sycnh with the simulation, but that's just because the simulation needs a little more tweaking. Could you give us three more years and twenty million more dollars?"