Post by karlox on Dec 8, 2012 21:32:37 GMT
I agree with you too! I think we´ve got an excess of data and paleoclimate scientist will keep feeding us with more and more reconstructions and data... the ability to put all that data together and run a valid model is still being developped...
But, we do know what we don´t know? Are we making the right questions? (as important as getting the right answers)
karlox,
Brilliant question! How does one figure out what one does not know? My current thought, get a lot of ideas, and then throw out the bad ones.
Regarding the concept of modeling the climate system, perhaps forum members will be suprised to hear that this approach is only one specific example of a much more widespread approach in physics that is currently being applied to the understanding of a wide variety of complex physical phenomena.
I personally view climate models as 'hypotheses'; ie descriptions of the behavior of a complex geophysical system that are subject to experimental analysis; ie. the scientific method - a reasonable approach.
Probably this Topic is closed... or my thoughts in last post are too crazy... but I do think that as we reconstruct whole ADN sequences from broken parts we will be able to put current well contrasted data, as for proxy data back to millions years including major Glaciation, and especially for what we know about the Holocene, plus complete full data set for past decades, well I imagine all that could be "shaked" by Good Maths and get a wider frame picture of where are we regarding climate...