Summary: The vital public policy debate over climate change is deadlocked. This is the sixth in a series about ways to restart the debate — and resolve it. This post gives Milton Friedman’s advice — the key is testing climate models so that a majority of the public has confidence in their predictions.
“For such a model there is no need to ask the question ‘Is the model true?’. If ‘truth’ is to be the ‘whole truth’ the answer must be ‘No’. The only question of interest is ‘Is the model illuminating and useful?'”
— G.E.P. Box in “Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building” (1978). He also said “All models are wrong; some are useful.”
Milton Friedman.
The debate about public policy for climate change has deadlocked. There are many factors at work, but two stand-out as unnecessary problems — “own goals” by scientists. They didn’t…
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