Not exact matches
As someone working somewhere in the midst of that nexus of «
science, values, ethics and politics» you describe (economics, international relations, technology... the
climate policy list goes on), I do recognise what you're talking
about, but I really don't see that we should very much
care.
Perhaps you would
care to explain exactly how these alleged «past exaggerations of
climate predictions» compelled numerous GOP elected officials to deliberately and repeatedly lie
about climate science, while seeking to abuse their positions of authority to defund
climate research and attack and destroy the careers of leading
climate scientists.
As I wrote in January, when a columnist really
cares about something — as was the case with Will's assault on
climate science — he really puts his shoulder to it in repeated volleys.
If someone is getting their
climate science from a politician (e.g. Monckton or Gore), well that is a sign that they
care more
about the politics than the
science.
I don't place much stock, however, in formal credentials (and mine certainly have little directly to do with «
climate science»); I
care more
about the substance of a man's speech, thoughts and actions than what's on paper or the laurels he sports.
I know this new paper is not likely to get much press, but now that Cook's «research» has been exposed as «mierda», hopefully more voters will finally realize just how little the President really knows (or
cares)
about climate science.
In the current political
climate, Robin Bell, a research professor at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, and president - elect of the American Geophysical Union, said scientists need to ``... continue to articulate how
science is key to what the new administration
cares about: intelligent investment in infrastructure, national security, public health.
While
climate science is most uncertain when it comes to the regional - scale impacts we
care most
about, we have a fair idea of the range of likely impacts in store for us now.
While the
climate science community may be interested in only the latest and greatest models, the rest of the world
cares about your track record for accuracy.
If we really
care about the
climate we should allows each member of these societies to count 20 hours of effort analyzing the
climate science literature, data and papers as a tax deductible charitable effort at say DC Lobbyist bill rates..
Climate science doesn't
care much
about raw measurement data any more.
The majority don't even understand the
science or they don't even
care about climate (or tobacco).
If you don't
care about climate change and you think that nuclear power plants pose some unique danger, which the
science does not support at all, then maybe you don't
care.
I've seen the sort of thing going on in
climate science also occurring in elementary - particle physics, but most citizens do not
care (or know)
about that, because it has no significant political or economic implications.
Climate scientists have become so talebanically fanatical
about crushing resistance to a flawed hypothesis that they want to be a fact that they do not
care how much damage they do to
science.
We have a larger, open - ended responsibility to speak truth to power, and to tell the public and policymakers, in plain English, why they should
care about the
science of
climate change, and what this
science tells us;
Clinton won 90 % 4 of this metro constituency (note: these voters really don't
care about climate change or honest
science - understandably, they just want to simply survive their concrete hellholes on a day - to - day basis).
Rather, the allegations are part of politically motivated character assassination attacks aimed at individual
climate scientists, by people who don't really
care about science at all, but who dislike
climate policy and the idea of reducing emissions.