Need to talk about – June 2009

About Valerio Lucarini’s effort to define climate science in 2002

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NOTE: Question, Info, Comment etc are from ‘whatisclimate’,

Ditto if marked: WIC or otherwise; Sept.07, 2007

Valerio Lucarini’s paper: “Towards a definition of climate science”, does not spend much time on explaining how climate science explains ‘climate science’, but talks about other matters. Actually Lucarini never even attempts to define ‘climate science’, but practically speaks only about “Uncertainties in climate science”, and is concerned with computer modeling. Subsequently his Conclusion of ca. 350 words mentions the term ‘climate science’ not once. Lucarini’s paper is a demonstration how the term ‘climate’ can be easily ‘twisted’ and misused.

In his chapter on “ Uncertainties in climate science”, he starts saying firstly: “Due to the complexity of the system, climate dynamics is chaotic and is characterized by a large natural variability on different temporal scales”, and thereon continues to emphasize that “the actual situation is much more problematic because even for the atmosphere, the database go back in time no more than 4–5 decades”. This shows that a simple fact is ignored, namely that only the atmosphere is part of a system and climate a mere ‘imagination’, respectively arbitrarily selected and compiled statistics. This shall be further analysed by putting some questions or remarks to the Lucarini’s Introduction.