comments

Scientists adjust models to avoid producing outlying results

Climate modellers are adjusting the control parameters and co-efficients in their models to avoid being an outlier, because outlying models have difficulty being funded.

RELATED ARTICLESExplain
⌅
Anthropogenic Climate Change
⌃
Human impact on the Earth's climate?
⌃
Case for significant anthropogenic forcing is clear
⌃
Support from a large majority of scientists
■
Scientists adjust models to avoid producing outlying results
↳
Is there evidence to suggest models are altered to get fewer outliers?
↳
Which models are considered to be unreliable due to model tweaking?
↳
Need to be funded influences the behavior of climate modellers
↳
Outlying models are less likely to be funded
⇤
Peer-review provides high-level of assurance
⇤
Quality of models
□
Overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed papers
□
No consensus
□
Claimed consensus is a politically orchestrated tactic
□
Scientists / consultants driven by need to secure funding
□
Fallacy: Argument from authority
□
Graph of this discussion
Enter the title of your article


Enter a short (max 500 characters) summation of your article
Enter the main body of your article
Lock
+Comments (0)
+Citations (1)
+About
Enter comment

Select article text to quote
welcome text

First name   Last name 

Email

Skip