Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay makes the case that Canada should abandon the Kyoto accord and refuse to participate in any such future accords. The first part to the argument reviews some of the key uncertainties in climate science, which are of sufficient magnitude as to indicate that we may still be all wrong about global warming. But even if global warming is happening, or is about to happen, it is not obvious that it is a bad thing. And if global warming is happening, and if we decided it is a bad thing, there are no feasible policies which will actually stop it. The scale of policy intervention required to stabilize carbon concentrations would have far worse effects on human welfare than any known impact of climate change. Finally, while mitigation is very costly, insurance against the effects of global warming is relatively cheap. Therefore the only climate change initiative we can reasonably undertake at this point is to establish a compensation fund in case there are provable future damages from climate change.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".