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Coming from a family of scientists and having a background in science as well, it's a bit terrifying (but not surprising) how many skeptics of anthropogenic cli

Coming from a family of scientists and having a background in science as well, it's a bit terrifying (but not surprising) how many skeptics of anthropogenic climate change (or of the extent and severity of its effects) there are here. There are a few really good posts in here making good points about climate science, but there are also a bunch of really dishearteningly poorly informed comments too. It's dismaying to see and then to be reminded that the US populace in general is even more skeptical of the conclusions of experts, which pretty much all point at a very bleak picture of the future--a picture which keeps being adjusted to be more bleak, since so little action is being taken to rectify the problem.

vixen99 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming https://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the.... ‘Dishearteningly poorly informed bunch’, are they?
- rimunroe 12y ago
  Yes, they are. ...But I wasn't referring to that list, I was referring to the people commenting on here. Also, a representative list of scientists who do not oppose the mainstream view of climate change would be far longer (note the chart on the side), and also include far more people who actually study climate change.
- adamc 12y ago
  This is misleading (your link is broken, btw -- needs a slash between org and wiki). Before the listing it says: "These scientists have said that it is not possible to project global climate accurately enough to justify the ranges projected for temperature and sea-level rise over the next century. They may not conclude specifically that the current IPCC projections are either too high or too low, but that the projections are likely to be inaccurate due to inadequacies of current global climate modeling." So we don't know that they disagree with global warming, just that they think the projections are too inaccurate.

vixen99 12y ago

https://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming https://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the.... ‘Dishearteningly poorly informed bunch’, are they?

rimunroe 12y ago
Yes, they are. ...But I wasn't referring to that list, I was referring to the people commenting on here. Also, a representative list of scientists who do not oppose the mainstream view of climate change would be far longer (note the chart on the side), and also include far more people who actually study climate change.
adamc 12y ago
This is misleading (your link is broken, btw -- needs a slash between org and wiki). Before the listing it says: "These scientists have said that it is not possible to project global climate accurately enough to justify the ranges projected for temperature and sea-level rise over the next century. They may not conclude specifically that the current IPCC projections are either too high or too low, but that the projections are likely to be inaccurate due to inadequacies of current global climate modeling." So we don't know that they disagree with global warming, just that they think the projections are too inaccurate.