Useless arithmetic
why environmental scientists can't predict the future
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Contributions
- Pilkey-Jarvis, Linda. - Contributor
Publication
2007 - Columbia University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
57,500 words, Guess
Page Count
230 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL15627980M
- ISBN-139780231132121
- ISBN-100231132123
- OCLC Control Number65207068
- OCLC Control Numberuselessarithmeti00pilk
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2006009632
- LibraryThing2355114
- Goodreads624021
Classifications
- LCCTD171.8 .P55 2007
Description
"The book offers fascinating case studies depicting how the seductiveness of quantitative models has led to unmanageable nuclear waste disposal practices, poisoned mining sites, unjustifiable faith in predicted sea level rise rates, bad predictions of future shoreline erosion rates, overoptimistic cost estimates of artificial beaches, and a host of other thorny problems. The authors demonstrate how many modelers have been reckless, employing fudge factors to assure "correct" answers and caring little if their models actually worked."--BOOK JACKET
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