> A model doesn't become a good model simply because
I agree, and
> nobody has bothered to make a better one
So bother! I have made 4 comments here and all of them ask the same question. What would you improve and how do you think it would affect the outcome?
Sometimes the simple model is (almost) as good as any in answering a simple question. For example, some people do not accept climate models (and probably never will), ostensibly for reasons that they are not good. I see the opposite - the models have gotten much better and much more realistic in the past 60 years. Yet, the same basic outcome (Earth will warm roughly 3 degrees by doubling CO2) was foretold by very crude models that even don't have the circulation.
I agree, and
> nobody has bothered to make a better one
So bother! I have made 4 comments here and all of them ask the same question. What would you improve and how do you think it would affect the outcome?
Sometimes the simple model is (almost) as good as any in answering a simple question. For example, some people do not accept climate models (and probably never will), ostensibly for reasons that they are not good. I see the opposite - the models have gotten much better and much more realistic in the past 60 years. Yet, the same basic outcome (Earth will warm roughly 3 degrees by doubling CO2) was foretold by very crude models that even don't have the circulation.