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Climate models ‘unsuitable for policy-making’

CLIMATE CHANGE

03 March 2017
 

The Government’s drive to cut carbon dioxide emissions from transport and the wider economy is informed by computer models that are unsuitable for policy-making, a climate scientist has said. 

“Global Climate Models (GCMs) are not fit for the purpose of justifying political policies to fundamentally alter world social, economic and energy systems,” says Judith Curry, until recently professor and chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia’s...

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