Climate Policy

[Jester]

I'll tell you where it is. It's where relativity was before 1905. Standard joke when writing proposals: list all unexpected breakthroughs and how they'll impact the schedule.

The future isn't predictable in that way, true. But we would have been foolish physicists indeed to discard Newton before Einstein, on the assumption that surely there must be some better future theory. It's only when the new theory exists, and proves to be better than the previous one, that we can shift our understanding to it. Trying to pre-empt the system, rejecting current explanations without any particularily promising replacement theory, seems to be a poor way to understand science, especially for the layman.

-Jester