It's only prudent to be skeptical of people who make scientific forecasts about the end of humanity.
I had gone to Hastings to find some cheerful news as an antidote to all the doomy scientific forecasts of collapsing stocks.
But given how much is riding on the scientific forecast, the practitioners of climate science would like to understand exactly what is going on.
Last week, the World Bank issued a report suggesting that a temperature rise of 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, which scientific forecasts say is possible, could cause widespread crop failures, malnutrition and significant sea-level rise.
Scientific forecasts based on computer modeling have long suggested that a time will come when the Arctic will be completely free of ice in the summer, perhaps by the middle of the century.
Ever since HG Wells, in an essay entitled The Man Of The Year Million: A Scientific Forecast, portrayed future humans as bald, flaccid creatures whose features had been etched smooth by the passing millennia, futurologists have gazed into their crystal balls and seen a species of truly naked apes stalking the planet.
As a result, framing regulations to enable expected value decisions might facilitate various agents to improve bespoke forecasts and hence extract more economic value from advanced scientific forecasts.
Hence, policy makers of different sectors in China should rethink and redirect the policies according to the sector's own feature, the spatial pattern, as well as scientific forecasts.
Luca Beltrame and Saba Nabavi Tafreshi created HEAL-BERG as a response to a potential future in which, "climate was changing at a rate exceeding most scientific forecasts; oceans warming, air pollution and climate change were caught in a discernible self-boosting loop.
Cloudy with a chance of war David Berreby | Nautilus | 31 July 2014 English physicist and mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson pioneered scientific weather forecasting in the 1920s by developing equations that captured atmospheric turbulence.
