Jordan comments on Science: Do It Yourself - Less Wrong

53 Post author: alyssavance 13 February 2011 04:47AM

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Comment author: Jordan 14 February 2011 06:02:06AM 1 point [-]

Successful predictions, you say?

I would certainly consider that positive evidence, but it's not knock out evidence. It's not even 90% confidence evidence, in my opinion. The data is just too noisy to draw high confidence conclusions after only a handful of years.

Comment author: Manfred 14 February 2011 01:52:26PM *  -1 points [-]

The IPCC must agree with you that that's not 90% confidence evidence, because there's a whole heck of a lot more evidence and they (well, several years ago) only gave human-caused global warming 95% certainty.

That's just a good example of a prediction, compared to all the inference from physics and historical data.