Steven Koonin: A ‘Red Team’ Exercise Would Strengthen Climate Science
Date: 21/04/17
Steven Koonin, The Wall Street Journal
Tomorrow’s March for Science will draw many thousands in support of evidence-based policy making and against the politicization of science. A concrete step toward those worthy goals would be to convene a “Red Team/Blue Team” process for climate science, one of the most important and contentious issues of our age.
The national-security community pioneered the “Red Team” methodology to test assumptions and analyses, identify risks, and reduce—or at least understand—uncertainties. The process is now considered a best practice in high-consequence situations such as intelligence assessments, spacecraft design and major industrial operations. It is very different and more rigorous than traditional peer review, which is usually confidential and always adjudicated, rather than public and moderated.
http://www.thegwpf.com/steven-koonin-a-red-team-exercise-would-strengthen-climate-science/
