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Re:It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s ... by nostrebored on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @05:53PM (#29168648)
Thousands of researchers making predictions with ever shifting probabilities is what you call unfalsifiable.

The predictions we’re talking about play out over decades. The sources cite other predictions. It’s a feedback loop of assumptions and peer review from people who you know already share the same assumptions.

Climate science is much more akin to sociology than a hard science.

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Re:It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s ... by adrianN on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @11:47PM (#29171180)
Except climate science has tons and tons of hard data that the models need to agree with to be publishable, whereas sociology has questionnaires administered to a group of 20 sociology students.
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Re:It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s ... by nostrebored on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @08:17AM (#29174292)
Making a model that agrees with historical data is literally the base case for modeling. Like it is a feature of all forecasting solutions
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