How Climate Scientists Parallel Early Atomic Scientists

Lasrick writes "Kennette Benedict writes in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about the existential threat of climate change, and how the scientists who study and write about it are similar to the early atomic scientists who created, and then worried about, the threat that nuclear weapons posed to humanity: 'Just as the Manhattan Project participants could foresee the coming arms race, climate scientists today understand the consequences of deploying the technologies that defined the industrial age. They also know that action now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will mitigate the worst consequences of climate change, just as the Manhattan Project scientists knew that early action to forestall a deadly arms race could prevent nuclear catastrophe.'"

Comments

Re: Honesty?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because the weather always changes and that way you'll never be proven wrong.

Re:Rothchild bullshit

[mwvdlee]

Why stop at four billion years? Compared to the temperature some ~13.8 billion years ago, it's positively chilly right now!

I find it fascinating how science is often refered here on slashdot, but when it comes to climate scientists, all of a sudden the vast majority of scientists are stupid, lying, elitists scaremongers.