I am increasingly convinced that climate scientists withhold information vital to understanding how dire Earth’s climate situation really is.

  • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I’m not a Doomer member, but this popped up and I felt like contributing an outside perspective. That’s what this comment is, so feel free to discount it if this isn’t my place to say such things…

    Scientists care about doing good science (yes, not all are completely competent or uncorrupted, but I digress). At the end of the day, many do want to improve the world, but few are going to be interested in assuming the mantle of saving it. That may not be best way for the world to work, but it’s just the way people work – we specialize and trust to society the other undertakings.

    Scientists have been doing the science, you can read journal articles published during the 19th century that establish the causal link between atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate warming. As time has gone on, those studies have accumulated and warnings from the scientific community have grown more numerous and more dire. They’re just scientists, that’s all they can do.

    Frankly, I’m a little surprised this community has failed to recognize their own kind in the wild; there are few people more convinced that the world is ending than climate scientists. My advice to you, dear reader: Go after politicians who ignore the warnings. Go after entitled elders who don’t give a rat’s ass about the future generations. Do not go after scientists for merely doing the same thing as you: spreading the word and hoping for sympathetic ears.