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Any model, including those predicting climate doom, can be tweaked to yield a desired result. I should know.
And we know for certain that's exactly what the climate modelers are doing. Why? Because all the models agree with each other, and they are all wrong! Like 45 West Point cadets who got caught cheating on an engineering exam, their answers are all wrong in the same way.
That's how it's done.
And we know for certain that's exactly what the climate modelers are doing. Why? Because all the models agree with each other, and they are all wrong! Like 45 West Point cadets who got caught cheating on an engineering exam, their answers are all wrong in the same way.
When I presented the results to the EPA official in charge, he said that I should go back and "sharpen my pencil." I did. I reviewed assumptions, tweaked coefficients and recalibrated data. But when I reran everything the numbers didn't change much. At our next meeting he told me to run the numbers again.
After three iterations I finally blurted out, "What number are you looking for?" He didn't miss a beat: He told me that he needed to show $2 billion of benefits to get the program renewed. I finally turned enough knobs to get the answer he wanted, and everyone was happy.
That's how it's done.