Dear Climate Scientists
please stop being such dicks
Climate scientists have for decades been fighting the lies, lobbying power, money and might of the fossil fuel industry. And now the industry corruption of COP28. They should know what it's like.
However, to a person, they have pushed back against, snarked at and ridiculed (looking at you Dessler, Mann, Cook, Oreskes- only the lovely Rosh from All about the Climate has been polite) as well as blocked or ignored scientists who are fighting the lies, lobbying power, money, corruption, cronyism and might of Big Pharma, regulation and the WHO.
Scientists have transferrable skills of critical analysis. They shouldn't be restricted to one area and be blind to all others.
They should also be respectful to each other.
The greatest and most important mark of intelligence is having the ability to conceive that what you have been taught and everything that you believe may, in fact, be completely wrong.
And then being able to admit to it.
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Its been dizzying going back and going to make sure arguments and claims I took as not worth the time because they have to be wrong only to find that I accepted shallow dismissals done with condescending tone to what amounts to the most important concerns of our day. From healthcare reform, to foreign policy, to the pandemic response, to the childhood schedule, to virology. I'm sorry but it has made me now skeptical about how real global warming but I haven't really taken the time to understand both sides of that. the problem is what do you get for your trouble...a depressing world of problems so big as to be unapproachable and uncomfortable/unavoidable conflict as what were obvious-go-along-with-everyone-else decisions are now battle grounds.
Yes I posted critical comments on this article https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-plandemic-and-the-seven-traits-of-conspiratorial-thinking-138483 whose co-authors include John Cook and emailed both John and Stephan Lewandowsky. No reply from John and Stephan dropped out when the going got tough.
What is clear is that true objectivity is a personality trait that most people don't possess. People can be objective when their inclinations and reality align ... but then when they don't align they lose any sense of objectivity which means they're not really objective because you cannot really be objective selectively, to be objective you must always be objective.
I have to say I'm starting to have serious doubts about climate change myself. It feels like rather a battle when the vast majority of those recognising the virology/covid scam (you're the only exceptions as far as I can tell) think climate change is a hoax too. I'm out on a limb believing the moon landings, however, the moon landings are much simpler than climate change which is so very much more complex and does seem to involve manipulation whether it's a real problem or not.
The other thing that climate scientists don't do is recognise the geoengineering that is clearly happening and we have to wonder what effect that might be having on the climate.