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No, the blog post was just an example of yet another attempt to halt the crucial work towards managing the current climate crisis, not an honest attempt at adva

• rayiner 7y ago
  > No, the blog post was just an example of yet another attempt to halt the crucial work towards managing the current climate crisis, not an honest attempt at advancing science. A really unfortunate reality of climate science is that it’s inextricably tied to the work of combatting climate change (if it exists). The normal scientific prices can’t work when any criticism of one set of results can be reframed in political terms.
  • EForEndeavour 7y ago
    First, many branches of science have always been inextricably tied to society. That's part of the point of doing (and publicly funding) science. Second, I honestly can't tell if you wrote "climate change (if it exists)" as a low-effort troll, or if you're actually on the fence about whether the climate is actually changing. Even the most willfully ignorant, contrarian AGW denier must admit that something is changing the climate, right?
    • rayiner 7y ago
      > First, many branches of science have always been inextricably tied to society. That's part of the point of doing (and publicly funding) science Almost none of the branches of “science” tied to society and public policy are actually science. Almost in every are of policy, we are like Noah wandering lost through the desert. As to the parenthetical, I’m not questioning AGW. I’m questioning whether we have real efforts to avert climate change.