| Topic: | Reply | |
| Posted by: | Michael Ixer | |
| Date/Time: | 18/10/26 20:08:00 |
Professor Joanna Haigh CBE, FRS (a former Head of IC Physics and Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College and and former co-director of the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and Environment, and former president of the Royal Meteorological Society) as well as Emeritus Professor David Southwood (another former Head of IC Physics and also one time ESA Director of Science) might be surprised by your denial of climate change modelling being scientific. Mathematical models are used frequently in astrophysics to understand phenomenon such as black holes, stellar evolution, formation of planetary evolution, to understand their science and form scientific theories about them - and also climatology but I can't be bothered to argue as it's of little consequence to me personally. (Yes, I have spoken to both of them after attending lectures but I don't know either well enough to say they're "friends".) I'm not despondent, I just think it's unfortunate that the human race might be heading towards a situation that will be difficult to recover from. Unfortunately, there's no god to help save the situation ... It is worth noting that measures to mitigate climate change would also help the environment by reducing pollution, etc creatinga better, cleaner world? Yes, there will be another ice age but not for around 1×104-5×104 years.. Mr Google thinks global warming might delay it by 105years. Some think the whole universe will go cold and dark in the around 10¹°° year. Anyway, a couple of views on scientific modelling: https://www.britannica.com/science/scientific-modeling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_modelling |