Understanding Public Complacency About Climate Change: Adults' Mental Models of Climate Change Violate Conservation of Matter, Climatic Change 80 3-4 80 3-4238.
While models of climate change predict an increase in the frequency of extreme climatic event, the impact of less extreme but sustained long-term changes (e.g. changes in mean temperature or average rain fall), can also be important in shaping selection patterns.
Scientists there were using glaciers as models of climate change.
The computer models of climate behavior ignore these effects.
This is an ineluctable consequence of improving the computer models of climate change.
Revesz, R. L. et al. Improve economic models of climate change.
You spend years learning about the climate system, computer models of climate and climate observations.
Kriegler, E. et al. Diagnostic indicators for integrated assessment models of climate policy.
The evidence they cite is largely based on mathematical models of climate change.
Eager to hear something juicy, I ask Dr David Stainforth to give me his take on models of climate change.
For more, check out our note about Americans' mental models of climate stability.
