Climate Change Research Gets Petascale Supercomputer

With impossibly high standards like yours, it's a wonder any other physical model still holds up.

There's nothing particularly high about the standard of "accurate" prediction, although with climate models we're in the peculiar position of being asked to take the results at face value long before anything like a decent empirical check can be made.

The comparision with QED is entirely wrong-headed, because QED is an exact theory that can be used to compute results in its domain with astonishing accuracy and checked by controlled experiments, whereas climate models are a pile of approximations that cannot

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