“Science is skepticism,” @JonahNRO writes to justify attack on climate science (based on polemics of non-scientists). But scientists aren’t skeptical of gravity, evolution, relativity, round earth etc. Those who are can’t claim to be pro-science.https://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/climate-change-frenzy-clouds-our-judgment/ …
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As a scientist, I'd say we are ill-served by such ridiculous simplification. Skepticism is *part* of science, but once something has been reproduced, for instance as
@MichaelEMann's climate record has been repeatedly, continued skepticism is just denialism.16 replies 48 retweets 265 likes -
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Denial of the fact of climate change requires not just skepticism of models - a common denialist talking point, but of things like observational data, physics, chemistry and biology. The effects are seen from changes in our ocean, to species migration, to direct measurement.
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And we know the models are "wrong", as George Box said, *all models are wrong* - by definition they are *approximations* of reality. But, some are useful. This is the denialist trope of moving goalposts. We don't need perfect models (that's the Earth itself) just good ones.
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Sadly,
@JonahNRO's article on climate science reminded me of articles by antivaxers on vaccines. It used the same techniques off exaggerating uncertainty.7 replies 0 retweets 17 likes -
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Jonah is a concern troll casting doubt and hoping to lead to inaction that might damage his buddies’ vast fortunes.
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That's not the impression I get from reading his article. He uses quite a few denialist tropes to appear "reasonable" while condemning Max for being too strident. Classic denialist tactics. I've seen them used by antivaxers and creationists.
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Replying to @Rogerwilco36 @gorskon and
If you can actually get past the childish ad hominem attack on Max on the first half, you’re better than me. I’d have been pretty proud of myself writing like that when I was in early college, but I grew up.
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