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Trying to predict the weather - A 2001 UN report forecast floods, extreme weather and outbreaks of malaria.

"They're not credible."

"To get an estimate of what climate is going to be by region is not possible region by region."

"Models have no ability to see storm fronts. So they can't predict storminess."

"Global averages are made out of region-by-region averages, which are admittedly incorrect—wrong in some cases by 11 degrees C over portions of the United States.

"Rainfall is wrong by 200% in some areas.

"So averaging out all of those mistakes can't possibly give you anything reliable, even in the global average."

We can't predict the weather for tomorrow, how can we predict th weather 100 years from now?

"We also don't have the knowledge of what changes the climate."

"There are something like five million parameters that have to go into a good climate model, and it has to compute for a time longer than the age of the universe if we wanted to know something."

When predicting the weather there is one thing we know for sure. We just don't know.

Baliunas, Sallie, and James Glassman. "Global Warming Results from Natural Causes." Contemporary Issues Companion: Global Warming. Ed. Shasta Gaughen. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2005. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Thomson Gale. University of Phoenix - main account. 24 Jan. 2008