Hey, Babalugats! We Got A Bet Here
Still shakin’ it, Boss.
A University of Pennsylvania marketing professor has challenged Al Gore to a $20,000 bet on global warming.
I’ve never been prouder of my alma mater.
Scott Armstrong, a marketing professor at Penn’s Wharton School, is also an expert on forecasting methods. He made the bet, which he e-mailed and snail-mailed to Gore, in order to “promote the proper use of science, rather than the opinion-led science we have seen lately.”
One of Armstrong’s students has set up a website: theclimatebet.com to track progress of the bet.
According to the site, Armstrong and fellow forecaster Kesten Green:
… have been conducting research into the global-warming forecasts put out by Gore and organisations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). And they discovered that most climate-change forecasters use bad methodology. They are set to present their findings at an International Symposium on Forecasting in New York on Wednesday. ‘What we have is climate forecasters effectively translating their own opinions into maths’, says Armstrong. ‘Their claims are not built on clear and thorough scientific forecasts but on their own outlooks.’
This is better than watching the World Series of Poker on ESPN.
It’s the upstart professor against the veteran politician/world’s most famous PowerPoint user.
My money’s on the kid.
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