Recent content by lgilman

Hi Helio, By comparing model to reality. This has been done. Result: climate models have been highly successful. See, for example, Hausfather, Z., Drake, H. F., Abbott, T., & Schmidt, G. A. (2019), “Evaluating the performance of past climate model projections,” Geophysical Research Letters...

The question "should we?" assumes that we can. But colonization in the species-lifeboat sense is, to a close approximation, impossible. Outposts -- bubbles of life supported by shipments of stuff from Earth -- are of course possible, but true species-lifeboat independence is not plausibly...