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.'"

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[ChrisMaple]

Not only are the claims of the climate scientologists (that's deliberate) deceitful, as noted it the preceding posts, the claims that they're like atomic scientists are pure hubris. Have they created anything, much less climate? Of course not.

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[mvdwege]

What claims are deceitful? Provide some references, please, instead of the usual derpy right-wing smears.

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[Black Parrot]

Climate scientists have more in common with priests than the sort of people who try to disprove their own hypothesis with experiments. If you had based your whole career on a particular hypothesis how anxious would you be to disprove it? Climate scientists are anything but unbiased observers. Any climate scientist who maintained the sort of dispassionate skepticism which is the hallmark of a real scientist would never be able to graduate in their chosen major. They would not be able to pass even a single class in climate science if they answered exam questions honestly.

Funny, that's *exactly* what creationists say about biologists. "It's all a big conspiracy", "they're brainwashed by their education".

Now you know what intellectual company you keep.