Trinity people: Ian Hewitt

Meet one of the academics at Trinity College: Professor Ian Hewitt is a mathematician whose research models melting ice sheets and glaciers, and who teachers undergraduate Maths students at Trinity.

[@sli621]

wonderful figure

[@byteme9718]

No one cares Ian. More to the point they don't care about people who make stuff up as they go along and there have been too many of those who've seen political or financial advantage in scaring the crap out of everyone. While not directly related, take for example the "talking up" to a WW3 scenario we're seeing because of a spat in the Ukraine.
I trust the data provided by field research however combining so many data streams into a model accurate enough to predict has infinite variables and as we've seen, has been misused to make wild assertions that discredit all climate change concerns. No one believes you apart from the lunatics who disrupt traffic and certainly not governments who collectively have done next to nothing but lie. Bringing the packaging industry to it's knees or banning the disposable crap that comes from China at Easter, Halloween, Christmas and every other day of the year would have massive benefit.
I recall reading a good part of a 600 page IPCC report where a section of it stated that conclusions were being distorted because there were TOO MANY data streams to model and would have to be reduced to get more accurate results. Who makes those decisions, what is their motive and how can you even begin to know the effect of switching data in what is a new science? How would you be remotely qualified to make that determination?
Physics has had ground breaking individuals like Einstein, Planck and Bhor. Mathematics could claim Penrose in our lifetime and cosmology Hawking. In the field of climatology however, no individual has achieved very much at all and that's not surprising given that data fed into a "woolly" machine gives, at best, woolly answers.
If predictions made by many models are correct, then we're already past the point of recovery, even before the third and developing world becomes industrialised. If the models are wrong, then their economies will rise above our own as they'll undercut us due to lower productions costs in every area, something we see so often already.
One of the worst tactics used is claiming weather events to reinforce doomsday predictions. If a long established science such as meteorology is so bad at prediction, what faith could support the claims of "new-age" climatologists who let's be honest, are politicians as opposed to academics. It's a cheap trick reliant upon the short memories most seem to have and one Boris Johnson used many times to get himself from one scrape to the next.

[@socioham04]

And why did you feel the need to say it twice? (in your words) "No one cares".

[@byteme9718]

@@socioham04 Why would you think I intended to?