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Opinion: I'm a climate scientist. If you knew what I know you'd be terrified too

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Re: Opinion: I'm a climate scientist. If you knew what I know you'd be terrified too

#11

I am agnostic on this issue. Not a partisan. Yet these experts for the past 20+ years have told us of impending doom and yet nothing much has happened. Winters are still cold, summers are warm, etc.. Cities have not been rendered uninhabitable due to flooding as was promised decades ago would happen. Maybe these experts need to try a different strategy instead of scaremongering.

Are scientists expected to be PR experts as well?

Re: Opinion: I'm a climate scientist. If you knew what I know you'd be terrified too

#12

I am agnostic on this issue. Not a partisan. Yet these experts for the past 20+ years have told us of impending doom and yet nothing much has happened. Winters are still cold, summers are warm, etc.. Cities have not been rendered uninhabitable due to flooding as was promised decades ago would happen. Maybe these experts need to try a different strategy instead of scaremongering.

Are scientists expected to be PR experts as well?

no but calling it catastrophe over and over not working. comes off as crying wolf

Re: Opinion: I'm a climate scientist. If you knew what I know you'd be terrified too

#13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are scientists expected to be PR experts as well?

no but calling it catastrophe over and over not working. comes off as crying wolf

Ah, maybe they should downplay the severity to make it more palatable.
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