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CLAM Bake!

Climate Learning and Modeling Development Environment

CLAM Bake is a complete Python programming environment that allows you to code and run simple climate computer programs.

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Richard Alley Looks at The Big Picture

Posted on 8 June 2012 by dana1981

In another of his 'how to talk to an Ostrich' videos based on Earth, the Operators' Manual, Richard Alley discusses that while we don't know everything about the climate, we do understand The Big Picture.

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Alex The Seal at 11:06 AM on 9 June, 2012
This is a great series but it's a pity about the whole ostrich thing. If you want to get someone to understand something.. and you start by likening them to an ostrich, you're really not going to get far. You can basically hear their minds creaking closed at that point.
Rob Painting at 16:31 PM on 9 June, 2012
Alex, it appears the videos are targeted at those that talk to climate change ostriches.
bill at 20:15 PM on 9 June, 2012
Exactly... and at any rate, it's a whole lot less contentious than the 'D' word!

It's well worth watching the whole 'Operators Manual' series (i.e. the full hour-long programs). Alley is a very likeable presenter. One could certainly direct ostriches to them...
chriskoz at 20:47 PM on 9 June, 2012
Alex,

Did you miss/misunderstood that "ostrich thing"? Watch it again, then. It does not say "Don't be an Ostrich" but "How to talk to an ostrich".

I think proverbial "ostriches" are those who never take their heads out of the sand.

Sure, they will not understand that series, possibly even dig the heads deeper. An example is Fred Singer with his mind so far from reality as discussed here to be absolutely incurable case. That's a classic ostrich.

Any regrets that this series hurts the feelings of such man? Of course none. Same principle applies as what Richard Alley nicely explains in this video: minor cases do not matter. What does matter is a big picture. And big picture in this case is what sane people are going to think/do about it. What the decision makers, like Mitt Romney are going to do.