One of the things I almost never see mentioned in the various climate debates is the observation that Earth is historically on the cooler side and is rising from that very low base.
The planet has hi...
What I almost never see is any humility regarding uncertainty.
There's a chasm of difference between definitive certainty and making a best guess based on the available data. Particularly regarding such a complex system, a high enough uncertainty in the data that's not yet available could easily result in the exact wrong best guess. It seems to me that scientists are capable of a lot more humility in this uncertainty than the scientific journalists who report on them.
There's a chasm of difference between definitive certainty and making a best guess based on the available data. Particularly regarding such a complex system, a high enough uncertainty in the data that's not yet available could easily result in the exact wrong best guess. It seems to me that scientists are capable of a lot more humility in this uncertainty than the scientific journalists who report on them.
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