Chance News 96

Quotations

"The world is a messy place. The scientific method imposes some order, but in the case of climate change, that order is probabilistic. For the sake of science and the planet, we should not become distracted by a false sense of certitude. Imprecise truths are the most inconvenient ones."

Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman, in: Inconvenient uncertainties, New York Times, 10 October 2013