just parametrize your ignorance

you've got to know what you don't know. call it "lambda." whatever. anyway, someone should tell that to james lovelock:

Prof Lovelock will say in a lecture to the Royal Society: "Any economic downturn or planned cutback in fossil fuel use, which lessened aerosol density, would intensify the heating.

"If there were a 100 per cent cut in fossil fuel combustion it might get hotter not cooler. We live in a fool's climate. We are damned if we continue to burn fuel and damned if we stop too suddenly."

in other news, the world will cease to function if we solve world hunger. gaia will not be pleased.

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it used to be that scientists upheld honest epistemology; instead of adopting the modus operandi of your typical social theorist.

meh; saying "we actually don't have a clue" just doesn't make as good a headline.

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lumberjack's law: "anything bad that cannot be directly linked to george w. bush will be blamed on global warming."