Uncertainty in forecasts is not necessarily a reason not to act—the Yale economist William Nordhaus has argued instead that it is precisely the uncertainty in climate forecasts that compels action,86 since the high-warming scenarios could be quite bad. Meanwhile, our government spends hundreds of billions toward economic stimulus programs, or initiates wars in the Middle East, under the pretense of what are probably far more speculative forecasts than are pertinent in climate science.
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