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In cases where the game-theory models say that one would be very unlikely to appear, this new factor pushes the other way, making competition more likely than before.
ECONOMIST: Preying on theory
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The book provides practical methods for supporting improved participatory processes, including the application of theory and models to aid decision-making.
UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences
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Extra dimensions are of interest because string theory, a class of mathematical models based on quantum theory that seeks to describe reality in the most fundamental way, requires that there be at least six of them, maybe more.
ECONOMIST: Cosmology
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In fact, as several participants noted, the satellite data -- which are the only good global data available -- actually show a cooling of the climate in the last 20 years, which completely contradicts the Administration's theory and computer models.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Case for-- and costs of-- Kyoto are unsustainable
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In theory, climate models should help tease out which of these indirect effects is playing the biggest role, and also say how much of the decline in ice cover can be assigned to natural variability and how much to feedback loops in which a little warming leads to a lot more.
ECONOMIST: Summer ice in the Arctic Ocean is vanishing rapidly
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But the AGW theory is based upon climate models that cannot duplicate the past or present.
FORBES: Intl. Energy Agency: Transforming Electrical Generation is Key to Fighting Climate Change
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In theory, ratings agencies and mathematical models help investors price the risk they are taking on, even if the securities they are buying are scarcely traded.
ECONOMIST: Risk and the new financial order
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Those models are all based on the circular assumption that the theory of man caused global warming is true.
FORBES: Fakegate: The Obnoxious Fabrication of Global Warming