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Indeed, my comment wasn't about the quality of the science. I read the abstract, and concluded it's beyond my ability to analyze critically (at least without de
by whitegrape 11y ago
Indeed, my comment wasn't about the quality of the science. I read the abstract, and concluded it's beyond my ability to analyze critically (at least without devoting a ton of time to it and learning new things) so I'll leave it to the other scientists. But the public messaging sounds the same as it's been for a long time, so it's a curious headline especially as "news". (Authors often not choosing their own headlines is irrelevant here.) The article itself even notes the movie-version of a perilous shift is over a decade old. Perhaps a better headline would be "Scientists argue compromised global warming limit not good enough" (edit: especially since talking about linear vs exponential is way too complex).
- kafkaesq 11y agoIt's OK if you don't want to take the time to dissect the paper's findings, or to keep up with the major highlights of climate change research, generally. But perhaps you shouldn't attack their findings as some kind of "party line", then (and implicitly, the researchers as being party shills, basically, for toeing it).