ChristianKl comments on Carbon dioxide, climate sensitivity, feedbacks, and the historical record: a cursory examination of the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) hypothesis - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 08 July 2014 09:41:20AM 2 points [-]

When it comes to this debate, I would really like to see more predictions from climate scientists that are about the future and not about the past. Having a government funded prediction market where every qualified phd student gets a certain amount of investment capital would be great.

Comment author: VipulNaik 08 July 2014 02:06:19PM 1 point [-]

Great point. I had come to a similar conclusion a while back, and Googled around to see if others had come up with the idea.

I came across this post by Robin Hanson:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/11/its-news-on-academia-not-climate.html

(see the last two paras, and note he links to some people critiquing his idea in the last sentence).

I might discuss the possibilities for prediction markets in a later post.