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you'd want to make that specifically US climate scientists - physicists or geneticists don't have relevant authority on the subject.
by beaconstudios 10y ago
you'd want to make that specifically US climate scientists - physicists or geneticists don't have relevant authority on the subject.
- peteretep 10y agoIt's still something like 97% though
- dexterdog 10y agoSource? Please don't say Cook.
- phaemon 10y agoOk, not geneticists, but radiative transfer is physics. What else would it be?
- beaconstudios 10y agoeverything is physics at the fundamental level, but that doesn't make physicists qualified to talk about everything. Climatology is its own field tied to Meteorology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatology
- phaemon 10y agoI didn't mean that I'd expect a physicist to understand every part of Climatology. I meant that I'd expect any competent physicist to understand the basic principles of the greenhouse effect, because that part is physics.
- beaconstudios 10y agoof course, but my understanding is that the debate isn't over whether the climate is changing, but whether it is driven primarily by human activity or a natural periodic system. A general physicist is probably not well placed to answer that question.