More quotes from Judy Curry
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...the group of skeptics that I am most concerned by is the large number of Ph.D. government and academic scientists in fields outside climate research. I used to dismiss their skepticism since they weren’t “climate researchers.” Now, after engaging in e-discussions with several hundreds of these scientists i now understand their concerns: inadequate treatment of uncertainty and too quick to jump to a consensus when the science is nowhere near sufficiently well estalished and tested to warrant a consensus. They think climate research is postnormal science and highly politicized. I would hate to grant them this point.
...this science is still so immature that we are still waiting for an adequate examination of the pros and cons of each proxy as a temperature recorder and calibration of each proxy to local temperature. The paleo community is now arguing as to whether or not tree rings should be completely eliminated from the analysis. Once we have some confidence in the individual proxies, then the paleoclimatologists can grapple with developing a global average temperature reconstruction, with 3-4 orders of magnitude fewer data points than in the historical temperature record (which provides substantial challenges to homogenization even in the historical record). And people think this science is settled and we should move on???
...the group of skeptics that I am most concerned by is the large number of Ph.D. government and academic scientists in fields outside climate research. I used to dismiss their skepticism since they weren’t “climate researchers.” Now, after engaging in e-discussions with several hundreds of these scientists i now understand their concerns: inadequate treatment of uncertainty and too quick to jump to a consensus when the science is nowhere near sufficiently well estalished and tested to warrant a consensus. They think climate research is postnormal science and highly politicized. I would hate to grant them this point.
...this science is still so immature that we are still waiting for an adequate examination of the pros and cons of each proxy as a temperature recorder and calibration of each proxy to local temperature. The paleo community is now arguing as to whether or not tree rings should be completely eliminated from the analysis. Once we have some confidence in the individual proxies, then the paleoclimatologists can grapple with developing a global average temperature reconstruction, with 3-4 orders of magnitude fewer data points than in the historical temperature record (which provides substantial challenges to homogenization even in the historical record). And people think this science is settled and we should move on???
