Articles tagged with "gdp"

Climate change is real, substantively human-caused and represents a serious problem that humanity needs to put real effort into solving. I believe this, not because I have “done my own research”, nor because it fits my ideology, but because the consensus of experts (in this case, climatologists) have concluded that it is true, and a good sceptic must follow the evidence where it leads.

Economics has been called the Dismal Science. But to what extent are economics scientific, and economists scientists? This article is based on a presentation to the NZ Skeptics 2009 conference in Wellington, 26 September.