Commentary Long-term computer modeling (LTCM) is most likely to be predictive in systems that involve a limited number of hard physical science factors. In those areas, the laws of physics are known. Computers can draw straight lines between each known variable, and the final endpoint of the calculation is likely to be true. LTCM doesn’t…

Commentary In defense of regulatory mandates during oral arguments, the following words were spoken by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: “Why is a human being not like a machine if it’s spewing a virus?” For her, it is a simple matter: regulatory impositions rule the machine world so why not the human one too? The…

Commentary On Jan. 8, 2014, at New York University in Brooklyn, there occurred a unique event in the annals of global warming: nearly eight hours of structured debate between three climate scientists supporting the consensus on manmade global warming and three climate scientists who dispute it, moderated by a team of six leading physicists from…