[lbo-talk] climate change

[Itamar Turner-Trauring (aka Shtull-Trauring)]

On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 16:00 +0000, James Heartfield wrote:
> Phil Jones, of the Hadley Climate Research Unit, owns up to the fact
> that the world is nt warming
> 
> 'The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the
> moment and it is a travesty that we can't. The CERES data published in
> the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more
> warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is
> inadequate.'

I like Taleb's approach to the issue: given how complex the phenomena
being modeled are, the global warming projections from computer models
are probably crap, garbage in garbage out. However, messing with a
massively complex and interdependent system like our ecosphere is a
terrible idea regardless, since we have to live in it and have no idea
what the impact of our actions will be.