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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by badpun on Saturday November 03, 2018 @07:30AM (#18369719)
Knowing that the temperature will rise is not enough to make policy decisions though. You need to predict the increase's magnitude, as well as practical consequences, such as climate change, how much the sea level will rise etc. And for that you need resonable and bug-free models.
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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by leeoniya on Saturday November 03, 2018 @09:09AM (#18370010)
> how much the sea level will rise etc

this will be the least of our problems. we understand very little about nature to have any reasonable prediction model. we don't know the inflection point which will cause massive collapse of major ecosystems we depend on.

all we know is that things are changing fast. faster than many non-human organisms are able to adapt.

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