The hope is that one can reduce the initial condition uncertainty for
predictions in some useful way, though this has yet to be demonstrated.
Not exact matches
It's also
useful in cosmology and charting the far reaches of the Milky
Way, weather
prediction and climate change modeling or even aerial reconnaissance missions for national defense.
Bets like this are
useful ways of examining confidence
in predictions — any trivial wager would be accepted immediately since there is nothing to lose, while having it be something more substantial requires reflection on the benefit of accepting (public respect) vs the probable loss.
The subhead, Why scientists find climate change so hard to predict, is even worse as it tars current scientists with the same brush, yet the article doesn't address current
prediction challenges
in any
useful way.