Dec
20
2009
The Perverse Economics of Climate Modeling
Posted by: realclearmarkets in RealClearMarketsAs the dust continues swirling around emails purloined from the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia, global warming activists keep insisting that computer climate models predicting disaster represent “settled science.” How can that be when climate models aren’t science at all?
Laws are science. Models are engineering.
Scientists conduct controlled experiments, collect observable data, and construct testable hypotheses. In this case, they compare and discuss the accuracy of various sets of temperature measurements, ice core drillings, or tree ring…
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