A genuine thanks to you, Bonmot, for persisting with the Wonderland crowd...

It's people like you that keep me sane.

AoM: backatcha

popnperish: it's people like Alice that keeps me sane :)

I think Alice is an abuser .... of intellectual honesty

By the way, whoever asked why the 1974 floods were bigger than the 2011 one, it is now recognised that, without Wyvenhoe dam, the 2011 flood would have been 1.5 metres higher. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/brisbane-saved-from-ruin-by-dam/story-fn59niix-1225992598096

“Gold” –Noooo! Bonmot.

THIS IS GOLD.

1) "Recent coordinated efforts, in which numerous general circulation climate models have been run for a common set of experiments, have produced large datasets of projections of future climate for various scenarios.... It is thus unclear by how much the confidence in future projections should increase based on improvements in simulating present-day conditions, a reduction of intermodel spread, or a larger number of models....Last, there is little agreement on metrics to separate “good” and “bad” models, and there is concern that model development, evaluation, and posterior weighting or ranking are all using the same datasets. While the multimodel average appears to still be useful in some situations, these results show that more quantitative methods to evaluate model performance are critical to maximize the value of climate change projections from global models."
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11519#196433

2) “The ability of the current generation of models to simulate (not forecast) some aspects of regional CC is limited, judging from the spread of results from different models; there is little confidence in specific projections (not forecasts) of future regional climate change, except at continental scales.”
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11483#195902

Well done, Alice Thermopolis.

Bonmot, the earlier one you shouted EUREKA! over was merely fools gold (FeS2.) —better luck next time,eh!