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		Trust climate predictions from climate models that cannot reproduce the past? (royalsocietypublishing.org)
		12 points by wsc981 on Nov 15, 2023 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

xracy on Nov 16, 2023 [–]

I would guess climate models are a chaos-theory-style thing, and that sensitivity to initial conditions would make predicting in either direction of time difficult/impossible.

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