Musings from 2014, updated

 Old post from 2014

The Heisenberg failure

Heisenberg failed in many ways while developing, or trying to develop a working reactor, and of course atomic bombs during WWII.   This is attributed by Bodanis (and others of course) to the facts that he was a theorist, while many of the others working on the same problem were trained as engineers,  And the German educational system, and the fascist mentality, which Heisenberg personified, preventing his subordinates from even mentioning his errors, much less solving fundamental problems that he had in fact created by using theoretical methods, rather than practical engineering.

This applies to current climate research, where open hostility and a refusal to even consider any other ideas when it comes to solving large problems for general circulation models.

These include (but not limited to) solar physics, atmospheric chemistry, biological forcings, clouds, precipitation, ocean circulation, large scale atmospheric changes, snow and ice, other pollutants besides CO2, vulcanism, especially undersea activity and under the ice sheets.

 The list goes on and on.