Re: Rain

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> godzilla@xxxxxxxxxx 11/16/00 03:11PM >>>
Lou Paulsen said:

> Or are there some communist climatologists to whom we can turn for
> guidance?

as an (astro)physicist/engineer/software trained person, i'd be
curious Lou: what would be, for example, the 4 topmost questions on
your mind if you could talk to a climatologist in person?

I'd be interested in advancing this discussion technically beyond
where its already been, if i could tell what the parties in the debate
think are relevant from the perspective of: if i don't model climates,
how can i understand the work thats been done on this problem.

do people want to understand the physical principles better? or how
they all get modeled in one basket? how the computer simulations
manage to take account of all the different processes in the model?

or, how does one go about assessing, in particulars, whether a set of
theories and their implementation in simulation experiments is colored
by capitalist ideology and funding decisions enough to be flawed?

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CB: Good points Lou and Les.

I wonder whether a statement of the fundamental topics of climatology, as might 
be
presented in the table of contents of an introductory high school or college 
class.
That might be too broad. Maybe those fundamentals pertinent to the questions of 
global
warming.

Also, what are the worse case scenarios ?  Range of timetables ?