Cara Santa Maria

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #1063 - Nov 22 2025 podcast

So they use these different models, and we'll talk about what the models are, or at least how they got to the models, to reflect these two systems. matched

These are obviously very dynamic systems. matched

The fast system is basically what they're calling weather, like weather. matched

energy and water cycles. matched

And then the slow system are the things that have been somewhat successfully modeled in the past, like the carbon cycle and changes to ocean geochemistry, the biosphere. matched

So these are things where the changes occur over years, sometimes decades, whereas the fast system, we're talking minutes. matched

Like imagine a thunderstorm and it's moving from matched

one area of the map to another, they're able to get that resolution down to 1.25 kilometers, which is high enough to be able to say, here is a storm moving from one area to another. matched

Previously, systems were only computationally mappable down to about 40 kilometers or more. matched

So this is a big change. matched

That's a big change. matched

I'm actually not sure because all of the reporting has to do with how they did the model computationally. matched

And it has less to do with what they fed into it. matched

But basically, what they decided to do and well, yeah, I think what ends up happening with a model is that you do get real time data, but I'm not sure if it's historical or if it's, you know, to the minute. matched

And I guess modeling too is complicated because I watched a few videos on how to model climate and all of the different levels of complexity that go into it. matched

And some of it does seem to do with just basic earth parameters, like especially when we're talking about climate. matched

It's like albedo. matched

It's where – it's like the rotation of the earth. matched

It's all these different things that are relatively – matched

standard and then when it comes to weather of course there are pressure changes and shifts and and all the things that kind of feed into pockets of weather forming so so two things that were kind of big here so they used uh something called the ic okay the icosahedral non-hydrostatic model what icosahedral matched

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