Paraphrasing John Kenneth Galbraith
Feb 6th, 2008 by bill
“The only function of climate forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”
If we are uncomfortable with economics forecasting why do we think we can do a better job forecasting climate changes with even less empirical data?
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