America’s Corn Belt is making its own weather

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Feb 17, 2018 06:19 AM by Magical Realist.)

Quote:The global climate model is off because it does not account for agriculture, which is a "mitigating effect" to greenhouse gas emissions. I guess you're free to believe that regional climate is somehow isolated from the global system. Magical thinking, but you're prerogative.

The global model didn't match the regional climate of agricultural areas. That doesn't mean it's off. Global warming is a fact of science supported by tons of evidence. Evidently agricultural cooling isn't enough to counteract it.

"But he warns that such benefits may not last if greenhouse gas emissions eventually overpower the mitigating effect of agriculture."

**Syne** · Feb 17, 2018 07:12 AM

So climate scientists are using a global model regionally. That tells you that they don't think regional climate is isolated from global climate.

Or are they just being silly buggers?

**Magical Realist** · Feb 17, 2018 07:16 AM

Quote:So climate scientists are using a global model regionally. That tells you that they don't think regional climate is isolated from global climate.

No they're using a global model globally. Global temps are taken globally not just in one region. That's why it's called global climate change and not regional climate change.

**Syne** · Feb 17, 2018 08:01 AM

(Feb 17, 2018 07:16 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: No they're using a global model globally. Global temps are taken globally not just in one region.

Again, so they're just being silly buggers trying to input regional numbers into their global models?

**Magical Realist** · Feb 17, 2018 08:22 AM

(Feb 17, 2018 08:01 AM)Syne Wrote:
(Feb 17, 2018 07:16 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: No they're using a global model globally. Global temps are taken globally not just in one region.

Again, so they're just being silly buggers trying to input regional numbers into their global models?

You're not making sense anymore. Get lost..

**Syne** · Feb 18, 2018 01:00 AM

Oops. Did we trigger your cognitive dissonance? Climate scientists using global models to model regional climate.

**Magical Realist** · Feb 18, 2018 02:43 AM

(Feb 18, 2018 01:00 AM)Syne Wrote: Oops. Did we trigger your cognitive dissonance? Climate scientists using global models to model regional climate.

Why wouldn't they do that? Wouldn't global warming be expected to be occurring in specific regions as well?

**Syne** · Feb 18, 2018 02:51 AM

(Feb 18, 2018 02:43 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: Why wouldn't they do that? Wouldn't global warming be expected to be occurring in specific regions as well?

Yes, because regions are not isolated from the global climate.

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