You have a gut feeling it will revert. Okay, great. But the consequences are on the scale of a significant fraction of the world's GDP as well as a significan

You have a gut feeling it will revert. Okay, great. But the consequences are on the scale of a significant fraction of the world's GDP as well as a significant fraction of the world population. Should we maybe have someone study it more carefully? So say we find a bunch of smart people to think about the question. Give them the biggest computers money can buy. Have multiple competing teams who double-check each other and get rewarded if they find mistakes in others' work or have new ideas to improve the study. Make it big -- it is important, right? Global. Lots of smart people, lots of the biggest computers. Anything they need to help their work. And after years of their work, when they come back with a report [1], then lets just ignore it and trust your gut instead, right? [1] http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/mindex.shtml http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/mindex.shtml