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by allenlavoie 3847 days ago
You could, but you would be wrong, as the remainder of the paragraph you started quoting argues quite convincingly. Fiddle with the free parameters of the contest and it "demonstrates" whatever you want it to.
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That's a fair synopsis of the paragraph, but that understanding only supports "Keenan's point". If "parameter fiddling" is out of bounds, we're back to the drawing board for more climate models.
Conflating "climate model" with "parameter fiddling" seems like the more significant logical failure.
The first link when one googles "climate model parameter":

https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch8s8-1...

Nice non-sequitur.