Includes bibliographical references (p. 358-370) and index.
Contents:
High-stakes gambling on autopilot with the world's environment -- Climate change: doing something about the weather -- Modern mass extinction: twilight of the living dead? -- Pascal and decisions in the midst of the mist -- Looking for the missing pieces of Gòˆdel's puzzle -- Heisenberg's long-range forecast: fog forever -- Thinking inside the box with the world wager -- You bet your life, and here's how -- We're all all-in -- Now this is a gambling problem.
Summary:
Decide for yourself if global warming is real-- and how we should respond.
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