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Seems a bit irresponsible to publish this analysis which seems to contradict an enormous body of scientific work (the public perception of which is quite crucia
by tehsauce 4y ago
Seems a bit irresponsible to publish this analysis which seems to contradict an enormous body of scientific work (the public perception of which is quite crucial for human survival) without making any consideration of apparent discrepancies. It’s fine to observe something that seems off and write about it, but I think it would be appropriate to add “This most likely doesn’t disprove climate change, but I’m curious to dig deeper into the discrepancies”. If I wrote an article with data suggesting that drinking bleach is healthy, I’m obligated to add a disclaimer that says not to take this to heart just yet.
- misslibby 4y agoHow big is the enormous body of scientific work?
- tehsauce 4y ago“More than 99.9% of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is mainly caused by humans, according to a new survey of 88,125 climate-related studies“ https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/10/more-999-studies-agree-humans-caused-climate-change https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/10/more-999-studies-ag...
- misslibby 4y agoI looked into the source of the 99% claims before, and in general, they don't say what you claim they say. They may find that most scientists agree that humans have an impact on climate, but that doesn't mean they agree on the doomsday scenarios.
- milosmns 4y agoIt is in multiple places in the article, isn’t it?
- tehsauce 4y agoNot really, the overall tone of the article is more like “my weekend project failed to produce results that agree with established ideas, everyone in that field are idiots because they have ‘science’ in their name”.
- milosmns 4y agoEh, I didn't read it that way. I felt like it was more of a "I crunched some data, might be wrong, pls check" kind of article
- mwint 4y ago> public perception of which is quite crucial for human survival Might be good to find some new words there. Last time I heard those it was after government leaders were lying to me about masks.
- tehsauce 4y agoAre you saying you suspect that government leaders are lying when they say climate change requires urgent action??
- josephcsible 4y agoThis reminds me a lot of the historical attempts to suppress heliocentrism.
- tehsauce 4y agoYeah it’s exactly the same except instead of the church its decades of data from thousands of satellites processed by scientists all over the world that are trying to suppress my unsustainable lifestyle because they just want everyone to suffer.