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Quotes from Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future — Orrin H. Pilkey

1934–2024 United States

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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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