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To: Phantom Lord
And further on models, if their ability is to be believed, please explain to us why when they are feed KNOWN data from past years weather they are not able to produce results that are close to what happened?

You mean like this?

Forcings and Chaos in Global Climate Change

Read it and see if you think the models can't reproduce the past accurately.

48 posted on 04/03/2002 11:39:07 AM PST by cogitator
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To: cogitator
Still a third conclusion of this study is an inference that Earth is not in radiative balance with space. Specifically, the observed temperature changes imply that Earth is absorbing about 0.5 Watt per square meter of sunlight more than it is emitting back to space.

This part was stunning: this is the only report of "hard" evidence for greenhouse gas warming I've seen. Unfortunately, it doesn't say exactly how the team "inferred" the radiative imbalance. It would seem to me that a few satellites scanning the Earth's surface vs. incoming radiation could determine if the Earth is radiating as much energy out as it takes in. Of course, the radiative imbalance could also be caused (temporarily) by a miniscule change in solar output. It would take a while (as the link notes) for an equilibrium to be re-established.

97 posted on 04/03/2002 4:49:56 PM PST by pierrem15
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