The Climate Causation Paradox: What If We Can't Afford to Be Wrong?
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What happens when the cost of being wrong becomes so catastrophic that we can no longer afford to question whether we’re right? This is the central paradox facing climate science today—not a question of data or physics, but of institutional economics and the sociology of knowledge.
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