‘Word salad of nonsense’: scientists denounce Jordan Peterson’s comments on climate models

Leading climate scientists have ridiculed and criticised comments made by controversial Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson during an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast. In response to Jordan Peterson’s comments on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, scientists said his remarks were ‘ill-informed’ and he appeared to have ‘zero expertise’ on climate change. During a new four-hour interview on Spotify’s most popular podcast, Peterson – who is not an expert on climate change – claimed that models used to forecast the future state of the climate couldn’t be relied on. Peterson told Rogan that because the climate was so complex, it couldn’t be accurately modelled. He said: “Another problem that bedevils climate modelling, too, which is that as you stretch out the models across time, the errors increase radically. And so maybe you can predict out a week or three weeks or a month or a year, but the farther out you predict, the more your model is in error. - Guardian