Archive for October, 2005

Climate Change Models Aren’t Much Better Than Oracles

PAUL DRIESSEN (Washington) In ancient times, priestesses at the Oracle at Delphi often answered important political questions with enigmatic predictions derived from dreams, signs, casting lots or reading animal entrails. Today, in the realm of climate change, that function is served by scientific priests and priestesses who offer forecasts of dubious value, derived from computer [...]