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Ok, not geneticists, but radiative transfer is physics. What else would it be?

• beaconstudios 10y ago
  everything 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 ago
    I 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 ago
      of 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.