Mars melt and Global Warming

[lenny]

You are right .. must have had your quote pramble in my cut and paste by accident. My appologies. Will try to edit it.

(Edit: I am unable to edit that post .. extremely sorry)

accepted/understood. the edit button seems to have deleted itself!

 

[lenny]

. In the model run I am currently looking at

which model? which run?

Some of the parameters tweaked between a climate model run:

Planetary Albedo, Planetary Albedo Near Infra-Red, Surface Albedo Visual, Surface Albedo Near Infra Red, Evaporative Heat Flux, Precipiation Heat Flux, Net Heat, Heat River Discharge, Heat Runoff, Net Heat Ground Conversion, Water Runoff, Heat Discharge, H20 by CH4, Salt Melt, Rich Number, Ross Number, Snow Depth, Snow Cover, .... the list goes on and on.

many of the values you state are NOT parameters in a GCM, planetary albedo is a function that varies with time. it comes out of the model, it is not a parameter one feeds into the model.

and who exactly is the "they" that are doing the tweeking?

These parameters are tweaked from run to run until the desired results are obtained.

how could you possibly know that, unless you sit next to them?

i thought i shared some of you worries about overinterpretation of the models, but without a bit of evidence, i fear your unsupported claims here are highly unlikely.

could we have some evidence?

yours constructively