The Visual Math Institute
Global Climate Change Modeling and Simulation

The case against the climate catastrophe prediction
by Ralph Abraham

As part of our review of the Daisy World models of James Lovelock and co-workers, we collect here some remarks on the limitations of the predictive value of mathematical models and computer simulation.

Many thanks to Marvin Greenberg for these links.

  • Bjorn Lomborg, Wall Street Journal, November 7, 2006.
    Critique of UN Climate Panel report, Nicholas Stern's review, and the UK government
  • Mario Lewis, CEI, March 16, 2007
    Critique of Al Gore's movie
  • Freeman Dyson, TCS Daily, April 10, 2007.
    Critique of climate models
  • The case against Al Gore, The New Party, 2007.
    Nine inaccuracies
  • Freeman Dyson, The Edge, August 9, 2007
    More climate heresies
  • London Telegraph, September 9, 2007
    John Coleman calls global warming a scam
  • John Christy, IPCC, Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2007
    A skeptic within the IPCC
  • US Senate Report,Debunks Consensus, December 20, 2007.
    400 scientists disagree with the IPCC
  • Alexander Cockburn, The Nation, June 27, 2007.
    Oops, this page has vanished
  • David Whitehouse, UK Met Office, January 3, 2008
    Critique of the UK Met Office report
  • Phi Brennan, NewsMax, February 19, 2008
    Suddenly the ice has returned
  • Daily Tech, March 6, 2008
    Zagoni says the greenhouse equations are totally wrong (Ferenc Miskolczi has corrected the error)
  • Christopher Booker, London Telegraph, March 9, 2008
    Climate is now cooling
  • Charles Clover, London Telegraph, April 30, 2008
    Warming will stop until 2015
  • Marc Sheppard, American Thinker, May 15, 2008
    Report on the 2008 conference of climate skeptics
  • G. V. Chilingar, L. F. Khilyuk, O. G. Sorokhtin
    Cooling of Atmosphere Due to CO2 Emission
    Energy Sources/A, January 2008 (requires subscription)
  • And many thanks to Bruce Stewart for these links. Others:
    Revised 15 May 2008 by Ralph