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[–] 4 points 2 months ago

The models have all been tuned to be "reasonable" even if reasonable is not factual. No one can publish a paper that says 8C warming and human extinction is imminent so if they build a model that says that, they look for "errors" in the model that make the numbers that high and "fix" those "errors."

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    [–] 22 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It’s important to distinguish between predictive models and explanatory models, and between local models and global models.

    The title implies an issue with global explanatory models, but the article describes issues with local predictive models.

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    [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Complete nothingburger of an article and a sensationalized headline.

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