My heart goes out to all who have lost so much in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
Yet there has been a rush to judgment when it comes to the whole vexed question of how this tragedy came about in the first place. Many people, before the floodwaters had even receded, pointed their fingers at “climate change.”
It’s only fair to point out that the same breed of computer models that failed to accurately predict what an actually existing storm was going to do over a two-day period has been taken by many to provide the slam-dunk reason for why it happened at all. A Danish proverb warns: “Prediction is always difficult, especially when it’s about the future.”…