The News-Gazette.com: UI professor's models allow worthless forecasts on much smaller scale

There's a window in Xin-Zhong Liang's spartan office at the Illinois State Water Survey, but it doesn't get much use when he's thinking about the climate.

With a million dollars worth of federal grants, the researcher and adjunct University of Illinois professor is constantly adding variables to an enormous climate model that requires supercomputing power at the petascale.
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He's not just a climate forecaster, he's a "rainmaker," bringing in grants from NASA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture.

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Climate Change Bad For “The Poor” » Pirate’s Cove — Shiny!

As far as “the poor” goes, what will really hurt them is artificially increased energy prices from climate change legislation. And the artificially increased energy prices will cause everything else to increase. It will be harder for “the poor” to find jobs. Hey, maybe they could go work for GM at lower hourly rates?

You know what happens when energy is cheap and plentiful? The living standards go up. People may complain about the plight of “the poor” in countries like the US and England, but, they have places to live. TVs. Microwave ovens. Heat and AC. Maybe a car. Floors not made of dirt. Know what they have in lots of 3rd world countries? Not TVs and microwaves. Not cars. Floors made of dirt and, if they are lucky, tin roofs. Disease is rampant. Healthcare? Food? Good luck with that. Want to raise their standard of living? Give them cheap and plentiful energy. Build a couple of nuke plants. Use solar, water, and wind (though, climahysterics tend to also hate water power, ie, dams, too.)

The poor do not generally give a rats butt about climate change. Caring about AGW is reserved for middle and upper class folks who already “got theirs.” Now they want to screw the poor by raising prices with their insane legislation, which is more about making them feel good, rather then doing anything. Especially since most of the Believers rarely do anything to reduce their own “carbon footprint.”