Also, the atmosphere is possibly the most complex and least-understood physical system on earth.
Anyone who claims to have a reliable conclusion about its behaviour is almost certainly lying.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 Jan 2010, 22:05, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

nicely put

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sun 17 Jan 2010, 22:11, Reply)

Studying it comprehensively is like trying to unravel a dense ball of string several feet in diameter.
But in addition to single linear threads, the ball contains quite a few knots and loops, so you can't always tell where one thread ends and another one begins, or even how many threads there are.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 Jan 2010, 22:15, Reply)

17
I read it on the Internet.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sun 17 Jan 2010, 22:16, Reply)

I work with hydraulic models
waves and rivers mostly, and it is difficult to get those accurate enough. Always a lot of assumptions. Something as complex as a global climate model is not going to be an easy nor accurate thing to create.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sun 17 Jan 2010, 22:27, Reply)