In the video below Gavin Schmidt gives a "TED Talk" on climate models, taking us from an overview of their construction to the resulting emergent processes and their skill at reproducing much more than a global average temperature trend.
Gavin is an excellent communicator and a true hero in humanity's fight against itself over the impending and tragic disruption of our global ecosystem services. Well worth the 12 or so minutes to watch!
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It is very nice . thx
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HAARP? (groooaannnnn - not another conspiracy)
Looks like we better get Sean Connery back - sounds like the plot of Diamonds are Forever.
What I sense in the video is the missing guidance of Gavin by his mentor and still mental superior Jim Hansen. Left alone now at GISS the guys there have a truly difficult life now showing own profile and credibility.
Has this blog already died? Where are the low-profile climate alarmists mandams, woew etc?
Is it really true that Gavin is the new GISS director? I cannot believe this since he is only a computer modeller and no meteorologist.
That's always been your problem freddy - your worldview is constructed around beliefs rather than facts and evidence.
mannda, you are plainly wrong. I rely only on facts. My question was, whether Gavin is really the new director of GISS?
".... I rely only on facts....."
Great joke freddy! You are a funny man!