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Investigation
How do we know how Earth’s climate works? Blind Men Feeling an Elephant Partial evidence can be very misleading. Remember the ‘blind men feeling an elephant’ allegory? One feels a leg and says it’s a...
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Climate Models
What climate models are and what they do is a common source of confusion. Digital Pictures and Models Climate models have different resolutions, with higher resolution models dividing the Earth into...
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System Dynamics
Systems are nonlinear, but what does that mean to most people? The story of a butterfly flapping its wings in New York and causing a hurricane is probably the most popular nonlinearity fable. Other...
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Basic Physical Principles
Climate concepts that are potentially confusing made less so by comparisons to everyday activities. Melting Ice and Tableware Earth’s Temperature Rise and Human Fever Arctic Oscillation and Your...
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Risk and Probability
Risk and probability are abstract concepts, yet people employ them in decision making every day. Here are comparisons between everyday risk and probability scenarios and similar climatological...
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Proportion
Subtle changes in the chemistry or temperature of a complex system, such as changes in the concentration of trace gases in Earth’s atmosphere, can have noticeable and even major effects. Blood Alcohol...
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Weather vs. Climate
“Climate is what you expect; weather is what you get,” (Robert Heinlein). “Climate lasts all the time, weather lasts only a few days,” (Mark Twain). Weather tells you what to wear on any given day;...
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