Read here. Informed observers of the global warming, climate change debate are well aware that climate models are ludicrously atrocious at predictions and forecasting. 'C3' has documented many of the models' shortcomings, which obviously leads them to be worthless tools for policymakers to rely on.
A team of scientists, Eric D’Asaro et al., is publishing new research that revealed a huge software error in the climate models due to faulty assumptions. Primarily, the scientists found that the rate of energy release between ocean and atmosphere is 10 to 20 times higher than the standard, "consensus" IPCC assumption.
"A soon to be published paper in the journal Science documents a new study of the ocean surface boundary layer and, to the investigators' surprise, reveals that the rate of energy dissipation within the boundary layer to be enhanced by 10 to 20 times. This indicates that the atmosphere does not supply the energy for the boundary turbulence, the ocean does. This contradicts the prevailing scientific wisdom and shows once again that computer climate models are constructed using false assumptions."
""[T]hese results are consistent with recent theory on submesoscale processes and thus encourage incorporation of this theory into boundary layer models. Such physics is not accounted for in present-day climate models. Fronts associated with the Kuroshio, Gulf Stream, and Antarctic Circumpolar Current are key players in the ocean-atmosphere climate system. Inaccurate representation of the boundary layer and flow energetics in frontal regions could thus significantly affect the predictive skill of climate models."....."That is science speak for the models are wrong—they do not represent an accurate picture of how nature works." [Eric D’Asaro, Craig Lee, Luc Rainville, Ramsey Harcourt, and Leif Thomas 2011: Science]
Additional climate-model and peer-reviewed postings.