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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Well done for finding this, Pierre. These examples show why I have been so skeptical of these wild climate predictions from people who should know better.
We fall for them every time, don't we? Everyone always listens to the 'end of the world' brigade, despite the fact that none of them have ever been right over the centuries.
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Well, in the last 50 years, computing power has progressed logarithmically, with more data being able to be stored and analysed, so the predictions now can be done quicker and more accurately.
The people at the time were working on the information they had at the time (except Erlich, who was a scaremonger and was just getting publicity for his books) - we have much more extensive datasets and computing power to forecast probabilities now.
I suppose you could be right - 97% of climate scientists are pulling a scam, and if it wasn't for those plucky little mining and energy companies fighting the good fight against Big Science, they would be getting away with wanting us, and our children, clean air and water, and cheaper renewable energy...
