Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Models Can't Predict Next Week's Weather, But We Trust Them On Climate Change? | Climate Dispatch

Image result for climate prediction memeModels Can't Predict Next Week's Weather, But We Trust Them On Climate Change? | Climate Dispatch
"It’s curious … SpaceX has all the money in the world, and they didn’t hire someone who could have accurately predicted the afternoon weather in Florida on May 27, 2020.
It seems like a huge oversight, doesn’t it?
And to think there are scores of nonprofit leaders and academics in Washington, DC, who can accurately predict global temperatures 10, 15, even 50 years into the future.
...No one “knew” the weather would cancel the SpaceX flight, but rather scientists used data to make the best-educated guess which is part of the scientific method we learned about in third grade.
And similarly, no one “knows” what will happen to the earth in 5, 10, 15, 50 years because of climate change.
So quite frankly I’m tired of hearing about it...
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