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People all over trust climate researchers less than scientists in general (www.science.org)
2 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | hide | past | web | 1 comment | favorite





As we should. Climate scientists consistently underestimate the impact and speed of climate change.

It's funny how the measured mass of the electron being revised monotonically upward is literally Feynman's textbook example to a priori detect fudged scientific data[1], but when we see climate impacts continually revised upward—decade after decade—we just smile and nod.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Millikan's...




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