Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes climate computer forecast
The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and triggers processes that lead to storm formation. Piers Corbyn activityconsequentformation Change image and share on social
Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out. Piers Corbyn 000beardeceitful share on social
We have to keep up the fight for evidence-based science and policy. Piers Corbyn baseevidencefight Change image and share on social
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. Lewis Thomas antbeastbegin share on social
And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn. Chris Anderson anticipateforecastsense Change image and share on social
Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey. Venerable Bede aboundbeastbreadth share on social