The value of ambiguity: a response to Charles Thorington
The following was written as a response to the blogger who writes at www.adividedworld.com. Please see the comment section of the following page for the background to this post. http://www.adividedworld.com/scientific-issues/clouds-and-global-warming/ Hello again Charles. I have been thinking about the things we disagree on over the past few months, and trying to figure out a way to respond to one of them without putting the rest of my life on hold. You've altered the way I think about climate change on an emotional or intuitive level, if not a logical one. I have long been aware of the lack of predictive validity of climate simulations, an ambiguity that naturally accompanies any simulation of sufficient complexity. Call it chaos theory or simply bad science, the result is that the margins of error in the field are unfortunately huge. I had previously been unmoved on an emotional level by any non-AGW theory due to their seeming to me to be reactions against pro-AGW theor