Friday, May 14, 2010

Beyond "Climategeddon" - from science education to solutions


Maybe later.

"Unfortunate too, is the fact that none of these more basic periodic functions are pure sin waves, so you will probably rag me over calling it a forrier series."

First, I would prefer to rag on you for misspelling Fourier, and for using the abbreviation of "sine" in the middle of a sentence. ;-)
[Less for the latter; the only valid excuse to abbreviate a four-letter word is to sneak it past the fcking censors! But "sin" is more common in print than the word "sine" so it's very understandable. Sigh.]

Seriously, though, my first reaction is to just refer you to Cardhu1's remarks about relating the math to physical reality. My physics background is clearly less than his, but still enough to insist as he does that mathematical *models* must have clear correspondence to physical reality, and specifically they must model what we believe are causal factors.

I don't have time for this project now but if I did, I would search scholar.google.com for the sort of modelling that you suspect will offer more insight, per the advice of my thesis advisor:

Step One in any research project is to read the existing peer-reviewed literature, for a variety of reasons including maximizing your chances of doing something worthwhile by not duplicating what's already been done, learning something about which approaches have been successful and which have not, and avoiding unpleasant accusations of plagiarism by unintentionally duplicating what's already been done.
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