earth simulator

Lots of FUD about climate models get thrown around in the Climate Wars, but what is it they are really doing anyway? The contrarians would have us believe they just take in a bunch of contrived parameters and spit out the worst case possible scenario for global average temperature increase. But the truth is the kinds of models the IPCC report on are very complex and nuanced. Since I'm no expert and pictures are worth thousands of words, I would like to offer a few beautiful video realizations of GCM output. The first is from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) CCSM climate…