Day: September 28, 2019💾

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Climate models aren’t certain. So why are scientists so confident? – CSMonitor.com

Climate models aren’t certain. So why are scientists so confident? – CSMonitor.com

When planning for the future, certainty can be hard to come by. That’s certainly the case when it comes to climate change. Yet scientists still urge confidence in their models. Why?

Modern life is made up of predictions and models of what we think that future looks like. We expect the economy to grow at 2 or 3 percent a year in real dollars over time and inflation to exist at a similar rate. Models aren't perfect but what is the alternative? If we have no trust in the models we can't plan for the future.

Canada’s plastic recycling dumped and burned overseas | CBC News

‘We don’t want to be the next cancer village’: Canada’s plastic recycling dumped and burned overseas | CBC News

Fumes spewed from the machinery as workers — wearing only T-shirts, sandals and no masks — at a recycling factory in northern Malaysia manually sorted through mountains of plastic scrap.

The workers, mainly from Bangladesh, earned around $12 a day, sometimes toiling seven days a week.

The labour was "very cheap," said one businessman, as he gave a tour to undercover CBC Marketplace journalists posing as plastics brokers from a fake Canadian company.