quote:On the subject of GCMs, it's a while since I visited the CA blog so I was surprised to read this;
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=6234#more-6234
Just confirms how primitive and open to potential bias the models have been.
Until the cloud stuff is understood the debates we've had about chaos etc don't become relevant. The aerosol stuff is relevant because of their potential role in the superparameterisation of clouds. The Eschenbach stuff presents an excellent way of thinking about viewing the earth (from the sun). I wish I'd thought of that back in the debates with Steve_M.
On another tack I think the study of jolts to the earth system by El Ninos and La Ninas potentially provide a way to test Eschenbach's hypothesis.
And on yet another tack did you see this on Watts up. Watt's submission is a savage indictment of the temperature measuring game in the US.