Orrin H. Pilkey Quotes

1934–2024 United States

Orrin H. Pilkey (September 14, 1934 – December 13, 2024) was Emeritus Professor of Geology and Director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS) within the Division of Earth and Ocean Science at Duke University.

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If a model itself is “a poor representation of reality,” they write, “determining the sensitivity of an individual parameter in the model is a meaningless pursuit.”

Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future (2007)

The objectivity of the IPCC documents is laudable. But the fact that the group recognizes its model weaknesses and is trying to improve them doesn't make its conclusions stronger or more believable. (page 83).

Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future (2007)

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