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Are models that show economic effects of climate change useless?
2013-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: MODELS simplify. They are supposed to. It is a feature, not a bug. Their formulae may be complex but models deliberately omit some things in order to focus on others. They also leave out factors that cannot be modelled satisfactorily. That is understandable, but what if the factors that cannot be modelled make a huge difference to the outcome? And what if the things that are excluded tend to produce a systematic bias in the results? That is precisely the situation facing those who model the economic...
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