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Can We Really Model Climate Change?

Can We Really Model Climate Change?
Cloud patterns over the Western Hemisphere on Aug. 8, 2019. NOAA via AP
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Hardly a day goes by when we aren’t assailed by claims of doom and gloom over “climate change,” with some well-known politicians warning us that our world will cease to exist as we know it by 2035 (a short 14 years from now!).

Digby Macdonald
Digby Macdonald
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Digby D. Macdonald is a native of New Zealand, a naturalized US citizen, and is a Professor in Residence (semi-retired) in the Departments of Nuclear Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Auckland and a Ph. D. from the University of Calgary (1969), all in Chemistry. Prof. Macdonald has published more than 1100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has published four books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Society of New Zealand (the “National Academies” of those countries and is a Member of the EU Academy of Sciences. He enjoys a H-index of 79 and his papers have been cited over 27,846 times.
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