@Vipros
To be fair to the climate modellers, they have run their latest models with an earlier starting date, and they "predict" the current climate trends pretty well. But then, the models are calibrated using historical data, so you would expect this behaviour.

You can't predict the future. You can make reasonable guesses at it, but exact predictions are impossible. If Yellowstone were to blow tomorrow, we'd have global cooling on a massive scale for several years, crops would fail, and billions might suffer/die. We don't know if or when that might happen, or exactly how much cooling would result.

Kaol would be in a good position though, with all his knives....
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 8 Sep 2008, 11:10, Reply)