Economics and Climate studies ... two careers where being consistently wrong do not hurt your employability just so long as you’re consistently wrong in ways agreeable to those with funding to give.
Reverse your predictive models and tell US with accuracy what the weather was yesterday, last week, last month, last year for any point on this planet that I happen to pull out of my...hat, and I’ll consider your ability to predict a future event. We know with certainty about the events that have already unfolded.
President Eisenhower:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ike.htm
..Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite...
Excellent!
Climate models are inaccurate guesses. If they were accurate, they would agree with each other and we would need only one, single model. The fact that multiple models exist demonstrates they are useless.
We’ve known for decades that a system as complex as the climate of the planet can’t be modeled. The phrase “sensitive dependence upon initial conditions” needs to be scratched into the forehead of every one of these ‘climate change’ hoaxers.