re: The mass freakout over Bret Stephen's climate change article on NYT

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Like, you could say the existence of gravity is uncertain and "a matter of probabilities". That doesn't mean engineers and physicists should proceed as if it might not exist.

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This just fricking retarded. As en engineer who routinely commissions research in to new areas of discovery, I can absolutely tell you that the change in global climate over the last couple hundred years is not well understood. The potential impacts are at best estimated with an unacceptable level of precision (best we can do at the moment). Lastly the causal link between any change and man's activities is tenuous at best.

Simply stated:
1) we do not understand what is going on yet
2) our tools to model the phenomenon lack the precision required to allow us to draw exact conclusions
3) causality has been assigned based on human emotion and political agenda.


That is all.