Are we relying too much on modeling in gathering info on GCC? What does this study mean in the big picture?

Question

Questions today are bouncing around coverage of this study. Please read the article found via the link below and share your thoughts. Please provide links to corroborate your arguments, if you have them.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/05/climate-change-and-tropical-cyclones-yet-again/

Answer 1

EPA: The EPA gets a lot of money from legislation passed on environmental "calamities" - in fact, 1/3 of the legislation passed since 1970 have been based on the environment. Use this site as a resource for climate change - not as a source to learn about anthropogenic climate change - because it doesn't prove anything. The EPA just takes it for granted that humans are causing it and then tells you to stop driving your car. : p

RS: No computer models are accurate. We do not have the computer power or ability to do so yet.

AGU: No proof. In fact, the document clearly states anthropogenic climate change is a theory. They are asking for clear proof of it in this document.

AIP: This is a document supporting the AGU's mission to find the truth about anthropogenic climate change... again, no documentation.

NCAR: This website contains zero documentation.

CMOS: Endorses further research into climate change and determining whether anthropogenic climate change is, in fact, an issue of not. No evidence whether is exists.

AMS: Endorses the "Joint Academies' Statement: Global Response to Climate Change" Great... no documentation. Everybody supports, nobody wants to do the work. So, in my opinion, IPCC gets the money, without having to do anything but say, "Yep, the Earth's heating up alright" which they've been doing for more than a decade without showing any decisive evidence.

Answer 2

Amy,  the ones who are so vociferous regarding the legitimacy of long-term man-made global warming don't care about facts.  They will gravitate towards the worst possible outcome because they percieve there is a consensus.   In the 70s it was forecasted that we would have global cooling.

The current crowd will probably be the same group twenty years from now,  they will attest vehemently to what will be the contemporary conscensus.

Answer 3

It was a good article here is another one that I read this moring.

Answer 4

All in all, it seemed a pretty fair article, much to my surprise.  There is still plenty to learn.  I for one would love it if the government stop encouraging building in in the worst hurricane prone areas.  Instead they keep bailing them out.  (I know that wasn't the focus of the article, just the closing comment).