Joanna Haigh, “Solar Impact: Climate and the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Uncertainty Is Fundamental to the Whole Scientific Process
Scientists often refer to uncertainty as something as is, as fundamental to the whole scientific process. To a person who's not a trained scientist, uncertainty means, patetly, you don't know. So by doing all this physics, we can look at the chances of the temperature being such and suchr We have a 90 % certainty that er such and such will happen. That's the way we operate. But it's inherently complicated. N need high level models. You need high level computer simulations. I you need some time to be able to check within the community and recheck. Tthatypersrated? i'm trying to stop talking about uncertainty and talking about erm sort
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