Imperfect understanding of climate feedbacks is a major cause of uncertainty and concern about global warming. How can the use of climate models help in the understanding of these uncertainties?
When we can't see and or understand how things work, most people tend to feel some apprehension towards the unknown. Climate change is no excpetion to that idea. I think many people are overwhelmed by climate change becasue they don't understand it and cannot see it happening.
Enter climate models.
Models, in various aspects of our lives, help us experience things in a safe, non threatening situation. Climte models can help us understand the bigger picture of climate feedbacks and climate change. Take a look at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's website about climate models:
http://www.oar.noaa.gov/climate/t_modeling.html
This website helps explain why and how climate models are used. It then explains what they call "phenomena of intrest" but what I would explain more as a list of variables that are impacted by or cause an impact to global climate change.
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