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If I wanted to do research on,shall we say,the squirrels of Sussex,what I would do,and this is anytimefrom 1990 onwards,I would write my grantapplication saying:"I want to investigate...the not-gatheringbehaviour of squirrels,with special referenceto the effects ofglobal warming",and that way I get my money...if I forget to mentionglobal warming...I might not get the money.There's a question in my mind...that the large amounts of moneythat have been fed into this particular,rather small area of sciencehave distorted theoverall scientific effort.We're all competing for fundsand if your field is thefocus of concern,then you have done muchless work rationalizingwhy your field should be funded.By the 1990's tenths of billions of dollars of governmentfunding in the US,UK and elsewherewere being diverted intoresearch relatingto global warming.A large portion of those fundswent into building computer modelsto forecast what the climatewill be in the future.But how accurate are those models?Doctor Roy Spenceris a senior scientistfor climate studiesat NASA's Marshallspace flights Center;he has been awarded medalsfor exceptional scientific achievementin both NASAand the AmericanMeteorological Society.Climate models are only as goodas the assumptions that go into them,and they have hundreds of assumptions.All it takes as one assumptionto be wrong for the forecastto be way off.Climate forecasts are not new,but in the past scientists
were more modests
about their ability to
predict the weather.
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