Climate change warning signs started in the 1800s. Here's what humanity knew and when.
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Climate change concern has recently skyrocketed, but scientists began warning humanity in the 1800s.

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

  • Avogadro JonesOPMEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Thank you. Yours may be a less cynical view concerning publicly available scientific thought.

    It occurs to me that more realistic study results can lead to fewer funding opportunities.

    • @nockoEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      There’s also the error bars.

      Scientists will determine that the temperature will rise by between 1°C and 6°C. That’s a big range. Climate change is complicated and it’s impossible to account for all of the variables.

      To the scientist (and their colleagues) they’ll know that 3°C is most likely, and this type of paper reads like a dire warning… but when the news breaks, it goes. One of two ways:

      1. “1-6°C is a huge range, scientists must not know what’s going on. What does this even mean?”

      2. “Scientists report that temperature will rise by at least 1°C, the UN Council on Blah Blah says that we should keep under 1.5°C…”

      It’s maddening, really. Most of the scientists I know are doomers.