[Osx-nutters] Denial

[Cyril Niklaus]

On 14 août 07, at 10:33, Chris Gehlker wrote:

>
> On Aug 13, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Stefano Mori wrote:
>
>> Nevertheless, the 6% quoted above is over 100 million, just for
>> modeling in the US.
>
> Thanks for showing me your sources, Stefano.  I still have a hard
> time accepting the figure though. If the us really  spends $108M on
> modeling per year and if a full time modeler costs $100,000 with
> overhead, then there must be more than 1,000 full time climate
> modelers in the US alone. If they publish once a year, there must be
> 1,000 articles a year just on results of climate models.
Or they really really suck at their jobs and can't get credible  
results much less published…

Cyril
(making a completely useless addition to this thread, but hey, it's  
titwank's nutters, so there.)