Critical Thinking Snippets

August 19, 2007

Bayes & Climate Change

Filed under: Bayes, Forecasting, Statistics — Tim van Gelder @ 12:16 pm

Gambling on tomorrow – provocative piece from The Economist on how climate models have to include something like Bayesian priors, and a difficult challenge to which this gives rise. 

Lets just hope the climate skeptics don’t seize on this as another pseudo-reason to dismiss climate modelling altogether. 

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