A must read: A Veneer of Certainty Stoking Climate Alarm
Guest Blogger / 24 hours ago November 30, 2017
In Private, Climate Scientists Are Much Less Certain than They Tell the Public
By Rupert Darwall*
Foreword by Judith Curry, President of the Climate Forecast Applications Network and former Professor and Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology
While the nations of the world met in Bonn to discuss implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, the Trump administration was working to dismantle President Obama’s Clean Power Plan and to establish a climate “red team†to critically evaluate the scientific basis for dangerous human-caused climate change and the policy responses.
The mantra of “settled science†is belied by the inherent complexity of climate change as a scientific problem, the plethora of agents and processes that influence the global climate, and disagreements among scientists. Manufacture and enforcement of a “consensus†on the topic of human-caused climate change acts to the detriment of the scientific process, our understanding of climate change, and the policy responses. Indeed, it becomes a fundamentally anti-scientific process when debate, disagreement, and uncertainty are suppressed.
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