Sentences with phrase «climate prediction market»

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Investors who take the time and effort to research the current political climate worldwide and ensure that they are up to date with any developments in the world of business and industry can achieve great success by making the most accurate predictions about the way the money market is likely to fluctuate.

In «The Predictions Market» menu on the left the second category is «Climate and weather».

I can try to convince you that prediction markets are indeed superior to expert elicitation in their ability to forecast climate change.

I had attempted a similar project at the 3rd conference with my poster «Comparison of Climate Forecasts: Expert Opinions vs. Prediction Markets» in which my abstract proposed the following: «As an experiment, we will ask participants to go on the record with estimates of probability that the global temperature anomaly for calendar year 2012 will be equal to or greater than x, where x ranges in increments of 0.05 °C from 0.30 to 1.10 °C (relative to the 1951 - 1980 base period, and published by NASA GISS).»

If we really want to know who's cherry picking data — land - based measurements vs geological time scales vs models, the answer is to create a betting market for climate prediction and get the people who think they know put their money where their mouths are.

Life moved on, and around mid 1996, I joined (or rather rejoined, since an older version had been discontinued) an interesting market experiment, the Foresight Exchange which traded (via a reputation - based currency) in future possibilities including some climate change - related predictions like sea level rise.