Computer Models Quotes

#1. The computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full of things like clouds and vegetation and soil and dust which the models describe very poorly.

Freeman Dyson

#2. Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers hijacked the country with 'new economy' mumbo-jumbo based on computer models and hype most Americans understood this.

Richard Karn

#3. You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

Laura Dern

#4. One of the computer models for a four degree temperature rise would give rise to a 10 degree temperature rise in Africa. And bear in mind also that in the depth of an ice age the mean temperature drop compared to the present was five degrees.

Martin Rees

#5. However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures.

Nigel Lawson

#6. Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and deliberations appear credible. They allow them to bamboozle the public because computer models are a complete mystery to most people.

Timothy Ball

#7. According to the computer models, we do expect high winds in northern Germany to increase by one percent per decade. But this is such a weak phenomenon that we won't even notice it at first.

Hans Von Storch

#8. I don't like being called a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide with imminent catastrophic global warming there are only predictions based on complex computer models.

David Bellamy

#9. With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

Jeff Goodell

#10. This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

Michael Crichton

#11. Computer models of the climate ... [are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

Freeman Dyson

#12. The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.

Ted Cruz

#13. The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.

Ian Plimer

#14. The goal is to create a "chit," or IOU, so that, assuming you continue to perform well, the organization feels like it owes you the next time.

Carla Harris

#15. Just so we're clear, I dont' secretly want to have sex with either of my parents.
Me either. I worked through that in college just to make sure. It was touch and go for a while, especially when my father kept asking me if he looked pretty.

Alex Adams

#16. Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including, alas, the one that says entropy always increases.

Paul Kalanithi

#17. The gunslinger had no idea what tooter-fish was, but he knew a popkin when he saw it.

Stephen King

#18. Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

Aldo Leopold

#19. Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.

Robert Genn

#20. Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is continuous, and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer.

Doron Zeilberger

#21. You will be so dead, dear Sister.

Sitta Karina

#22. No matter what ... ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.

Walter Dean Myers

#23. When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

John Banville

#24. So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic.

Steve Ballmer

#25. How reliable are the computer [climate] models on which possible future climates are based? Not very. All will agree that the task of modeling climate is vast, because of the estimates that have to be made and the rubbery quality of much of the data.

Don Aitkin

#26. Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you.

Augustine Of Hippo