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Description: We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.
This is a guest post by Prof. Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts at the Met Office, ( IPCC AR4 and AR5 lead author ) about Lewandowsky, Oreskes et al’s forthcoming paper, which suggests that climate skeptics influence climate scientists. I think it highlights a difference of opinion how science should be communicated to the public.
Richard’s post starts now.
Stephan Lewandowsky and co-authors have published an Executive Summary oftheir forthcoming paper* Seepage: Climate change denial and its effect on the scientific community . The authors suggest that climate scientists are allowing themselves to be influenced by “contrarian memes” and give too much attention to uncertainty in climate science. They express concern that this would invite inaction in addressing anthropogenic climate change. It’s an intriguing paper, not least because of what it reveals about th
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