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There is also some conflict of interest. Academics studying climate change have a big incentive to show that ACC is real - it increases their importance, potent
by agent008t 7y ago
There is also some conflict of interest. Academics studying climate change have a big incentive to show that ACC is real - it increases their importance, potential for funding, relevancy, political power, etc.
At this point, the issue is also way too political.
I would love to see a group of researchers, ideally originally from a different discipline (studying complex systems, so finance perhaps?), with pro-economic-activity, pro-capitalist leaning beliefs (this will give them a higher hurdle for being convinced by data), apriori skeptical of the level of certainty that ACC is real, self-funded, looking at the models and come up with some probabilities of various outcomes for the future.
- Flip-per 7y agoI work as software developer in the climate research field. According to the researchers here, during the past decades the problem has been being played down by science. Predictions of effects and outcomes and especially the chosen language in publications was rather conservative. This changed during the last couple of years.
- southern_cross 7y agoWhy the change?