Richard Lindzen & William Happer - Off the Record Segment
Added 2025-11-20 14:32:27 +0000 UTCVideo Version of Episode 46
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Ugh! The whole "butterfly flaps its wings" meme is such a gross misrepresentation. I'm a software engineer, not a climate scientist. But as I understand it the real point is that climate models are, at least historically (i.e., three decades ago when I first heard about this phenomenon), extremely sensitive to initial conditions. Starting a climate model with a seemingly insignificant change to initial conditions would result in different outcomes. Which is not at all surprising given an understanding of "chaos theory" and the limitations of computer modeling.
Kurtis Rader
2025-11-23 06:35:29 +0000 UTC
