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Old September 14th 06, 08:41 PM posted to sci.geo.meteorology,alt.global-warming
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Default Weather forecasters compared (WSJ article)

raylopez99 wrote:
Interesting article. And some claim that we can predict the mean world
temperature in 100 years.



Weather is the local transient state of the atmosphere.
Climate is the wide area steady state of the atmosphere.
They are different.

I can not predict the transient state of a single fair coin.
It will fall heads or tails up as it pleases.

I can predict that steady state of many coins very well.
In fact, the more coin tosses there are, the more accurate
my prediction that they will fall heads up about half the time
is likely to be.