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To: Sam who wrote (51547)	3/4/2008 10:46:14 AM
From: neolib	Respond to of 543018

I assume a whole bunch, but IIRC, I got the graph from Wikipedia under climate attribution or some such. I copied it to my computer some time ago. The problem is that economists, despite economics being a human phenomena which we can collect a lot of data on, can't come to much of any agreement as to what causes what. Just look at the supply side vs. demand side split as one example. Or free trade, or immigration, etc. Of course in climate science we are trying to predict largely one thing, temperature, whereas in economics, we are mostly interested in what? "Wealth", quality of life, money, or what? People can't agree on that either, or for metrics for any of them.