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That's uhh, not true. At any rate, shouldn't we be listing to the climatologists on this matter, because their specialty is, you know, climate?

• SamReidHughes 8y ago
  Yes it is true. The often cited statistic comes from https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2009EO030002 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/200... Counting climatologists is a bad idea because they shut critics and skeptics out of the field. We know that climate models are generally wrong. Trying saying that while having a career as a climatologist.
  • cultus 8y ago
    You're really veering off into conspiracy theory territory here. It's clear you haven't the faintest how climate models or any geophysics works. Don't mistake a facility for computers for expertise in all science. I actually have a PhD in a geophysics field, I know what I am talking about here. 1. That study is 10 years old at this point. The evidence for climate change has become vastly more undeniable since then. 2. Majorities of scientists from all categories believed in climate change, even back then, according to this study.
    • SamReidHughes 8y ago
      I'm not disputing global warming. I am disputing the impression of a 97% consensus. And this is a great example of what I'm talking about, you're trying to call me a conspiracy theorist, and making up stuff about what you think I know.
      • cultus 8y ago
        No, you aren't just disputing the consensus. You are claiming that climatologists "shut critics and skeptics" out of the field, so we shouldn't listen to them. Yes, they do shut out pseudoscience, as do other legitimate sciences. That is different from disagreement on scientific facts. Climatologists disagree about very fundamental things all the time.
        • SamReidHughes 8y ago
          There are people on the record saying certain kinds of results simply shouldn’t be published. Also, anybody who views climate prediction as intrinsically suspect pseudoscience isn’t going to want to enter the field either.
          • cultus 8y ago
            So now you are saying that climatology is literally pseudoscience.
            • viridian 8y ago
              That isn't what was said though. This entire conversation chain is painful to read, I would encourage you to read up on the principle of charity. It's a dialectic tactic that seems to be fast fading in the world of click bait and outrage, and I think everyone is suffering for it.
• whatshisface 8y ago
  Putting on my conspiracy helmet and tightening it all the way, how can you prove that that's not the same as polling the Department of Constructive Mathematics about the law of the excluded middle? Every field self-selects for people who believe that whatever the field studies is actually possible to figure out, all the way from physics to Paranormal Studies. Someone who didn't believe that climate models could predict anything wouldn't make any. Appealing to the authority of climatologists is not going to convince anybody because everyone who thinks they are authoritative already agrees that global warming is caused by humans...