{"id":3848,"date":"2009-10-20T06:23:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T13:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/10\/20\/how-to-stop-doubting-love-the-climate-models\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:46","slug":"how-to-stop-doubting-love-the-climate-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/10\/how-to-stop-doubting-love-the-climate-models\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop doubting &amp; love the climate models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How to stop doubting &#8230;&#8221; was the banner headline topping the Opinion section of last Sunday&#8217;s Oregonian newspaper (October 18, 2009). <a href=\"http:\/\/people.reed.edu\/%7Ejfry\/\"><b>Prof. Julie Fry<\/b><\/a>, the author of this commentary, crafted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2009\/10\/how_to_stop_doubting_and_love.html\"><b>two page<\/b><\/a> argument intended to move the paper&#8217;s readers past the stale non-debate over the existence and causes of global warming and towards the pressing problem of &#8220;what can we do about it?&#8221; To this end, she asked and answered four questions about the basis of current scientific understanding of climate change:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do scientists establish consensus, and what is the role of consensus documents like the IPCC reports?<\/li>\n<li>What is the role of computer models? Why should we trust them?<\/li>\n<li>What aspects of climate science are firmly established?<\/li>\n<li>What are some remaining uncertainties?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Predictably, this piece, just like Julie&#8217;s previous foray into the Oregonian arena (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/08\/dont-trust-charlatans-earth-is-heating-up\/\"><b>Don&#8217;t Trust Charlatans<\/b><\/a> &#8230;&#8221;, August 7, 2009), attracted a large number of heated comments in the newspaper&#8217;s online zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How to stop doubting &#8230;&#8221; was the banner headline topping the Opinion section of last Sunday&#8217;s Oregonian newspaper (October 18, 2009). Prof. Julie Fry, the author of this commentary, crafted a two page argument intended to move the paper&#8217;s readers&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/10\/how-to-stop-doubting-love-the-climate-models\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;How to stop doubting &amp; love the climate models<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4345,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions\/4345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}