Skeptical Science New Research for Week #50, 2020 Wait - we
Readers following the Advances in climate & climate effects modeling. portion of the weekly research roundup may have noticed: in general, higher model resolution calculating climate behaviors at finer scales is helpful for increasing model fidelity against real-world observations. Coincident to this is another matter: It may be unfair as a purely scientific matter but climate models are held to a peculiarly high standard, given their crucial role as decision tools affecting huge swathes of human affairs. Within the error brackets of
we re in trouble models have been good enough for quite a while, but what with the fuss and bother of modernization to account for what we re learning some folks want to make quite sure of what they re buying into, and fair enough on that.