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The models are always wrong. It's virtually impossible to model something with an impossible amount of unknown inputs. Even accurately measuring the Earth ove
by pureagave 1y ago
The models are always wrong. It's virtually impossible to model something with an impossible amount of unknown inputs. Even accurately measuring the Earth over time is a joke. Unfortunately the models are presented in pop science and mainstream culture as accurate or something that we should use to create public policy.
- dboreham 1y ago[flagged]
- constantcrying 1y agoLying about science is not helpful. The key driver behind climate change denial is science communication misrepresenting climate science. All climate science models are incredibly uncertain and making concrete predictions based on them has and will continue to make scientists look like idiots.
- user____name 1y agoWhat should we base public policy on instead?
- billfor 1y agoHaving less people .
- Windchaser 1y ago> It's virtually impossible to model something with an impossible amount of unknown inputs. Nah. We have a pretty good idea of what the main unknowns in climate are, and they have an associated uncertainty range. Yes, it's a lot of work to model such systems with a useful level of accuracy, but "a lot of work" is very far from "virtually impossible". ? If the climate was that unpredictable, then the Earth would be uninhabitable. (FWIW, I do computational modeling for work - not in climate, though - and you would not believe how much misinformation there is about modeling from conservatives)