The earth's core super-rotates eastward. The main evidence is provided by subtle changes in propagation speed of sonic waves made by earthquakes, a
tour de force of scientific measurement. What's being touted here isn't so much that discovery (which happened a while back), but
the successful creation of computer models that match the observations. That's an example of models being used well in the furtherance of a deeper understanding – unlike their primarily
investigative use in climatology, where there seems to be no shame in promoting models that don't even come close to matching those pesky, politically-incorrect, non-grant raining actual observations. Reality bites, if you're a climatologist like Mann or Hansen...
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