[__ Science __ ] New App Predicts Future Climate Out to 2070

[AIG.com]

What will the weather be like in the year 2070? Well, apparently we can know that, according to an Australian-produced app called My Climate View.

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[Barbarian]

What will the weather be like in the year 2070? Well, apparently we can know that, according to an Australian-produced app called My Climate View.

AIG is confusing "weather" with "climate." Climate is reasonably predictable. Weather is not. Turns out, weather is chaotic, but chaos has a large-scale structure of its own.

Why is it so hard to predict the weather a week in advance, and how can scientists tell us what they think the climate will be like in 50 years’ time?

First of all, it’s important to understand that weather isn’t random, it’s chaotic. If the weather was random, it would mean there’s no possible way of knowing what it was going to do next. However, the weather does obey the laws of physics and every change in the weather has a cause. The problem is that since there are so many possible causes, we can’t know about them all.

MetLink - Royal Meteorological Society Weather, Climate and Chaos Theory

Why is it so hard to predict the weather a week in advance, and how can scientists tell us what they think the climate will be like in 50 years’ time?

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