UQx DENIAL101x 4.4.1.1 Principles that models are built on
Channel: UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
Date: 2015-05-19

Dana Nuccitelli explains the principles that climate models are built on: fundamental physical laws. No one can know the future for certain, but these models allow us to make educated decisions looking forward. About Denial101x...

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DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (2014, November 12). Latest supercomputers enable high-resolution climate models, truer simulation of extreme weather. ScienceDaily. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141112144825.htm

Manabe, S., & Wetherald, R.T. (1967). Thermal equilibrium of the atmosphere with a given distribution of relative humidity. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 24, 241–59. http://go.owu.edu/~chjackso/Climate/papers/Manabe_Wetherald_1967_Thermal%20equilibrium%20of%20the%20atmosphere%20with%20a%20given%20distribution%20of%20relative%20humidity.pdf