Strangely, Christy concluded both his written and verbal testimony talking about fossil fuel energy and economics
rather than climate science - subjects well outside of his area of expertise.
Finally, most other leading - edge areas of science (think, say, cosmology) are more remote to people's everyday
lives than climate science.
is an engaging account by Rick Trebino of Georgia Tech on his experience in trying to publish a scientific comment in a field far less
controversial than climate science.
I can speak personally of these concepts from the perspective of biomedical science, which as others have already suggested, has been far more contaminated by scientific
misconduct than climate science (at the level reported in the blogs and media).
If it's presented properly, it should be understandable by people with a technical background other
than climate science — and there are quite a few of those people — and many of them are on the conservative side of politics.
Any area other
than climate science that impacts government policy should be subject to these rules also.
It is very different
than Climate Science, which is the study by specialists of individual components of the complex system that is weather.
If I am wrong, I'd like if someone corrects me on it, but I am certain I'd read several times about Mann's ability to get huge amounts of money, and it seems like it is much more
than climate science has ever gotten before.