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.
Taken as a whole, scientists are fairly open to new evidence, but conservative about making non-orthodox claims about that evidence. Climate research is harder because it's a slow-moving phenomenon. 'People all over' are not in a position to understand that.
'People' also tend to be slow at recognizing how much different their lives are from those a century ago - because of science discoveries. Taking away all those advantages for a while would put a quick stop to most of their negativity. So what they think is not terribly significant.
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...
Taken as a whole, scientists are fairly open to new evidence, but conservative about making non-orthodox claims about that evidence. Climate research is harder because it's a slow-moving phenomenon. 'People all over' are not in a position to understand that.
'People' also tend to be slow at recognizing how much different their lives are from those a century ago - because of science discoveries. Taking away all those advantages for a while would put a quick stop to most of their negativity. So what they think is not terribly significant.