With the relentless media-academia assault on so-called “climate-change deniers” – a defamatory, misleading term if ever there was one – I am always and ever reflecting on why I continue to cast my lot with the skeptics. And I nearly always end up back here, pondering the graph below. I’ve been preparing to teach an ultra-short course on Stella [TM] modeling at a conference in North Carolina next month. (Stella is a simulation platform for complex systems, a simple way to simulate a system’s evolution over time.) In… Read More →