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Many scientists have called for a substantial new investment in climate modeling to increase the accuracy, precision, and reliability of climate predictions. Such investments are often justified by asserting that failure to improve predictions will prevent society from adapting successfully to changing climate. This Forum questions these claims, suggests limits to predictability, and argues that society can (and indeed must) make effective adaptation decisions in the absence of accurate and precise climate predictions.

QUT offers climate change [scam] law scholarship - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Queensland University of Technology will become the first in the country to offer a scholarship to study the legal ramifications of climate change.

QUT is offering the scholarship, worth almost $100,000, for a PhD student to do research on legal issues arising from global warming.

The university says a lot of work has been done on science and economic aspects of climate change, but not legal ones.

The director of the university's Law and Justice Research Centre, Bill Duncan, believes it will be important in the future to fully understand the legalities of a carbon emissions trading scheme, or even global warming-related lawsuits.

"Lawyers are quite inventive these days and there could be actions against corporations for lack of compliance with regulations in relation to that," he said.

Mr Duncan says there will be a huge increase in legal action and regulation relating to global warming.