Comments on: If this is Wednesday… https://dhyoung.net/2014/04/02/if-this-is-wednesday/ Scribo, ergo sum. Words and works of DH Young, scribbler at large. Mon, 07 Apr 2014 15:59:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: David https://dhyoung.net/2014/04/02/if-this-is-wednesday/#comment-84508 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 15:59:54 +0000 https://davidhaywoodyoung.com/?p=2763#comment-84508

In reply to Sally Jardon.

Well…it would be a neat trick to pull off! I remember the “ice age” thing too–and of course there are people who still say it’s coming Real Soon Now. And then there are the people who reject what the IPCC says and simultaneously counter with their own preferred predictions–whether they’re objecting to the notion that mean temperature will rise or that it’ll be harmful if/when it does varies. Either way, they’re just telling us what it is that they want to believe. ‘Cause, you know, models are hypotheses and are only useful insofar as they give measurably correct predictions. This applies to everybody’s pet notions.

Until we can start predicting them, trends are things we recognize in the past. The future remains unknown. I guess a lot of folks don’t feel happy with that. Which is…well, I’m going to say it’s just fine. Human cussedness is a beautiful and powerful force. We’d be a much poorer species without it.

-D

]]> By: Sally Jardon https://dhyoung.net/2014/04/02/if-this-is-wednesday/#comment-82852 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 03:43:34 +0000 https://davidhaywoodyoung.com/?p=2763#comment-82852

David, we have been trying to predict the climate for as long as I can remember and let’s say I’ve been around for longer than I admit. Most to the time, no all the time, the prognostication has been wrong. For fun go to YouTube and search for ‘the coming ice age’ .

All the best, Sally

]]>