Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy written question – answered at on 27 April 2017.
Peter Lilley
Conservative, Hitchin and Harpenden
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 29 March 2017 to Question 68956, whether the climate models referred to rely on computer simulations only rather than observational evidence.
Nick Hurd
The Minister of State, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
The evidence that declines of snow and ice, other than of Arctic sea ice extent, are not consistent with reasonably expected natural variability does not rely on computer simulations alone. Detection of declining snow and ice is based on observations. Both observations and models are used to estimate natural variability in the climate system, and attribute the most likely cause for the detected declines.
Yes6 people think so
No2 people think not
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