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Program for the Human Environment

1986 paper on limits of prediction

January 14, 2020January 14, 2020

We scanned and now post Jesse Ausubel’s pre-Internet paper

Some Thoughts on Geophysical Prediction
In Policy Aspects of Climate Forecasting, R Krasnow (ed), pp. 97-109, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, 1986

We also post the 2-page memo that Jesse wrote in 2016 about Limits to Knowledge for the Deep Carbon Observatory.

Posted in News, Deep Carbon, Energy and Climate, Technology & Human Environment

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