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Old August 11th 07, 10:31 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default New Met Office global warming forecasts


"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
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In uk.sci.weather on Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Paul C wrote :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...weather.uknews


The Grauniad - must be definitive then...

The forecast marks a shift in thinking by climate change researchers.
Instead of using their models to look many decades ahead, they will


Roll dice?

There is no consistency in climate prediction models, so why should we
take any projections seriously?
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There is from the fact that they allpredict a warming trend over the long
term. It is merely the magnitude of this trenf that is in doubt, and that is
why forecasts tend to have a "most likely" range as well as an actual
forecast value.

To try and imply they are useless is just wrong and very disrespectful to
climate scientists.