James_Miller comments on [QUESTION]: What are your views on climate change, and how did you form them? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_Miller 08 July 2014 07:37:45PM 4 points [-]

I'm an economist and think that the challenge of macroeconomic forecasting tells us something about the difficulties of creating mathematical models of the climate. I don't think we have the ability to make accurate mathematical models of complex systems where we can not conduct experiments to calibrate our models. But I recognize that I know little about climate models and so am not highly confident of my beliefs.