Bad Definitions? – Negligent climate science?
Post: 15th April 2018; Reference: http://www.whatisclimate.com/
A clear language matters. Meaningful definitions are essential in science. Climatic science seems a hopeless case in this
respect. They brought themselves to prominence three decades ago, but for them “Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the average weather”. It follows a few abstracts from current definitions:
„weather“ (AMS) =
___The state of the atmosphere, mainly with respect to its effects upon life and human activities.
___Popularly, weather is thought of in terms of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility, and wind.
___The “present weather” table consists of 100 possible conditions, with 10 possibilities for “past weather”
clim...
Read More
Recent Comments