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In effect you are saying that we have a better understanding of the long-term evolution of the climate than we do of the long-term evolution of Earth's economy.
by InclinedPlane 13y ago
In effect you are saying that we have a better understanding of the long-term evolution of the climate than we do of the long-term evolution of Earth's economy.
There is absolutely no evidence that this is the case and considerable evidence that the exact opposite is true.
- DaniFong 13y agoI'd actually like to see the comparison. It seems to me that there is a case for us understanding the long-term evolution of climate. We have a decent record of atmospheric composition and temperature in ice cores, and, after all, we do know something about the effect of greenhouse gases -- the direct physics is not too complex. It's the feedback loops -- clouds, biology and so on, that are the challenge. Likewise with economics. But it seems that the details of the dismal science are even more turbulent...
- InclinedPlane 13y ago> It's the feedback loops -- clouds, biology and so on, that are the challenge. There's a name for those systems. It's called "the climate".
- Anderkent 13y ago>There is absolutely no evidence that this is the case and considerable evidence that the exact opposite is true. What kind of evidence? I've heard of no credible claims for future evolution of Earths economy... with perhaps the exception of R. Hansons rather informal blog posts.