acidbasement
1000+ Head-Fier
- Joined
- Jan 29, 2007
- Posts
- 1,292
- Likes
- 16
Quote:
The IPCC reports are the largest and most comprehensive peer-reviewed scientific documents in the history of the world, which represent a synthesis of the current state of knowledge about climate change. They ring the alarm bell after years of research by the greater climatological community, who are much better informed than any of us posting on this forum. There may only be 80 climatologists in the US as you say (where did you get this number?), but there are many more elsewhere in the world, and together they have crafted a series of documents with whose conclusions a non-climatologist argues at serious risk of earning well-deserved ridicule.
Originally Posted by nibiyabi /img/forum/go_quote.gif By the way, the hypocrisy of this is hilarious. The climatologists (of which there are only about eighty in the US) are the ones putting forth this kind of research that gets ignored by the media. The media are the ones blowing the alarmist horn, bringing in waves of people who are not suited to discuss climate change (e.g., biologists and zoologists) and claiming that they are climatologists because they can give accurate descriptions of what would happen were the Earth to get twenty degrees hotter or whatever. |
The IPCC reports are the largest and most comprehensive peer-reviewed scientific documents in the history of the world, which represent a synthesis of the current state of knowledge about climate change. They ring the alarm bell after years of research by the greater climatological community, who are much better informed than any of us posting on this forum. There may only be 80 climatologists in the US as you say (where did you get this number?), but there are many more elsewhere in the world, and together they have crafted a series of documents with whose conclusions a non-climatologist argues at serious risk of earning well-deserved ridicule.