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September 26, 2013 03:27 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/b4iKbbMzups/story01.htm
An interesting way of explaining scientific certainty and climatechange
There's a new IPCC report coming out and that, inevitably, leads to confusion about what scientists mean when they say things like "we are 95% certain that climate change is being caused by human behavior." The AP's Seth Borenstein used this as a jumping off platform to talk about certainty, and other (less popularly/politically controversial) ideas that also have 95% certainty attached to them.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/b4iKbbMzups/story01.htm
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