Monday, July 25, 2011

Are we sure that Dr Schmidt's Fortran program correctly models all climate influences, including undiscovered volcanoes?

Where Can You Hide 12 Volcanoes? (Hint: It's Big and Blue) - NYTimes.com
Here’s a reminder that we know more about the topography of Mars than that of the Earth’s ocean-covered regions and that there is much remaining to be discovered here on our home planet.

Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey, filling a gap in seabed charts near Antarctica, have found a dozen undersea volcanic cones, some the size of Mount Fuji, near the South Sandwich Islands in the far reaches of the South Atlantic Ocean.
Flashback: Remember when we almost spent $45 trillion based on some secret Fortran code written by left-wing idiots with no common sense?
The equations are written in Fortran, a computer language that is, as Dr. Schmidt puts it, "very old and not very trendy." The computer code is 126,327 lines, to be exact, and when Dr. Schmidt scrolls through it on his computer screen, it looks like nothing so much as an extensive (and incomprehensible) grocery list.

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