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Science shouldn't care about "convincing people that we urgently need to address the current climate problem" when it comes to testing their models. Scientists
by semi-extrinsic 11y ago
Science shouldn't care about "convincing people that we urgently need to address the current climate problem" when it comes to testing their models. Scientists should test their predictions against all available usable data with impunity. Of course you don't want to write about that in your fancy Nature paper, you put that in a climate modelling conference paper or something.
- _petronius 11y agoYes, the division of concerns is important. I guess I'm more concerned with how we talk about what it is the climate models are predicting rather than how those models are constructed. I wouldn't want anyone to conflate "natural processes without human influence can cause similar effects" with "we aren't causing it therefore we can keep burning oil/coal/etc. and it doesn't matter."