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Scientists, if they are scientists, still need to apply the scientific method, to make the hypothesis, test it, troubleshoot it, reveal all the data and make sure it's reproducible. Instead they try to say that the science is settled and if you dare to question it you become a "denier". It should be science, not policy and politics awarding a gravy train of funding for political allies.
Another nice opinion piece on Pruitt.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/...-incomplete/hekwjPBTScRpFyXaXnrWhI/story.html
Another nice opinion piece on Pruitt.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/...-incomplete/hekwjPBTScRpFyXaXnrWhI/story.html
This is not how science works. Certainly climate is too complex to predict precise outcomes over long times since it is chaotic in a formal sense. Note "formal" where chaotic and random are not in anyway the same. Weather (which is not the same as climate) can be predicted rather well as long as one understands what that means, or perhaps what it doesn't. In my region precipitation can vary significantly every several miles. Snow belts are very real. AHAH WEATHER IS WRONG! No, but it isn't exact. Better off without predictions then? No.
Well let's make it better. Accumulate data and stare at it. Don't interpret, just stare. The LHC? Stare at it. Students learning physics? Stare in the labs.
Data must be interpreted full stop and this is exactly what is ignorant/misleading in the piece in the Federalist. The nature of the constituents has been examined and still are in combinations and scenario. Models are tested, and after decades we have imperfect results. Not "wrong" but imprecise. The author has not shown a sufficient basis for objection.