# How accurate are climate models?

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/how-accurate-are-climate-models/51194>\
**Category:** Marine Weather\
**Created:** [April 10, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/how-accurate-are-climate-models/51194 "2019-04-10T22:39:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Capt\_Phoenix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/capt_phoenix/32/281_2.png) [@Capt\_Phoenix](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Capt_Phoenix)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/how-accurate-are-climate-models/51194/21 "2019-04-18T03:14:43Z")

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> [@wxman22](#):
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> And since this warming started **before** humans had any impact, it’s not clear to me, what we can do about it.

If you look at the rate of warming in the last 200 years vs at any time previously it’s obvious that what’s happening now is not normal or natural.

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**Author:** ![wxman22](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/wxman22/32/1014_2.png) [@wxman22](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/wxman22)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/how-accurate-are-climate-models/51194/22 "2019-04-18T03:29:24Z")

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Exactly right, because we can measure only the last few hundred years with such accuracy.  
We can not measure the warming which ended the last ice age 16k years ago to the same resolution.

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**Author:** ![Kennebec\_Captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kennebec_captain/32/13_2.png) [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/how-accurate-are-climate-models/51194/23 "2021-06-10T11:16:26Z")

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**Author:** ![Kennebec\_Captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kennebec_captain/32/13_2.png) [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/how-accurate-are-climate-models/51194/24 "2021-06-10T11:16:36Z")

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