Tomorrow's Memes Today

It's not often that you can catch tomorrow's memes being born today, but here's one—a study which claims climate is too complex to be precisely modeled that will undoubtedly wind up a favorite in the global warming denialist's toolbox. You can see how these things happen even in the misleading headline; the study's claim that climate models "can never give a precise prediction" of future climate conditions slips to "too complex for accurate prediction." Precise and accurate don't mean the same thing—not that it will matter in a few months when deniers start lecturing us about how science proved you can't predict the weather.