I'm getting quite annoyed now with the number of people who have little to no training in matters of climate getting called "climate scientists" by the press, or representing themselves as such.
No flights, a 4-day week, living off-grid: Climate scientists try to save planet
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Re: No flights, a 4-day week, living off-grid: Climate scientists try to save planet
#12I'm getting quite annoyed now with the number of people who have little to no training in matters of climate getting called "climate scientists" by the press, or representing themselves as such.
Which ones from the article didn't you like?
Re: No flights, a 4-day week, living off-grid: Climate scientists try to save planet
#13I'm getting quite annoyed now with the number of people who have little to no training in matters of climate getting called "climate scientists" by the press, or representing themselves as such.
Which ones from the article didn't you like?
I did a quick background check of the ones that I could but I don't remember the details; none appeared to have proper training in climate matters, though, that I recall. But just listed in the article itself you've got "sustainable consumption", "marine biology", "carbon management", "cognitive psychologist", etc. (The other day I ran across someone claiming in an online post to be a "climatologist", but in fact his other posts said that he was an oceanographer.) Those fields are at best only tangentially related to matters of climate, and there's probably not a properly trained climatologist in the bunch.
It astounds me that the field of climate science is taken so seriously when it appears to actually mostly just be full of hangers-on, also-rans, and wannabes. And I can think of a few big names in it who have little to no scientific training at all.
Re: No flights, a 4-day week, living off-grid: Climate scientists try to save planet
#14How is a handful of people eschewing flights and 5-day work weeks going to have any impact on our future temperatures? We can work on renewables, but the main source our renewable power today is hydroelectric and I have read that very little growth in hydroelectric power can be expected because the vast majority of exploitable topology in the USA is already in use for hydroelectric. Its hard to imagine enough wind tu…
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