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Eric Winsberg on Climate Models and the Pandemic

Policy@McCombs

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The Difference Between Climate Modeling and Epidemiology Modeling

Climate models are at least partially grounded in physical science. Disease modeling is really grounded just in assumptions about human behavior, he says. "I think it's easier as consumers to separate their opinions from the actual scientific findings" He adds that climate scientists should not tell us how much carbon tax or credits we should put on electric cars.

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