Here is an article about NASA's new super computer. It suggest that issues
about climate change will be resolved through the use of models. I post this
to raise the EE issue of the use of models in environmental science. I've
always been dubious about the use of models by ecologists in place of actual
evidence. I think that the use of models in ecology is similar to the use of
correlation in economics. Both are substitutes for "real" science in the
sense that they rely on a certain type of faith. Anyway, things have been
quite, so I thought I'd stir the pot.
http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/2001/07/07232001/supercomputer_44384.asp
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Steven
“Our human ecology is that of a rare species of mammal in a social,
omnivorous niche. Our demography is one of a slow-breeding, large,
intelligent primate. To shatter our population structure, to become abundant
in the way of rodents, not only destroys our ecological relations with the
rest of nature, it sets the stage for our mass insanity.”
Paul Shepard
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