A Conversation That Matters with Ken Green

Episode 28 Dr. Ken Green

I’m deeply skeptical of computer models

This week’s Conversation that Matters features Dr. Ken Green author of Global Warming: Understanding the Debate and the Senior Director at the Centre for Natural Resources at the Fraser Institute, he says, "computer models never predicted an 18 year temperature pause".

Green says, “when you enter the land of climate modeling you are no longer doing normative science. I’m deeply skeptical of computer models of any type, climate or economic, who?,  six months ago would have predicted the current price of oil?”

He agrees the climate is changing and that human generated greenhouses gases are affecting it, however, he says, “it’s the assumptions that lead to the higher estimates of warming that are placed in the computer models that I don’t regard in the same category as normative science.”

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