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Furunculus
12-28-2009, 12:36
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/27/the-unbearable-complexity-of-climate-2/

The climate is a tera-watt scale planetary sized heat engine. It is driven by both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial forcings, a number of which are unknown, and many of which are poorly understood and/or difficult to measure. It is inherently chaotic and turbulent, two conditions for which we have few mathematical tools.

It just ain't that simple.