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Old 10-06-13, 10:10 AM   #93
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I don't think he's a bad scientist, but he makes mistakes, like everyone else.

Climate Scientists take on Richard Lindzen

There are several scientists that aren't questioning climate change, but are questioning the accuracy of the IPCC projections.

List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Which can be valid, but criticism needs to be both accurate and constructive, and that isn't always the case.

Apology From Prof. Lindzen for Howard Hayden's NASA-GISS Data Interpretation Error

But that isn't a function of climate science as much as it's a function of our scientific fields in general. People tend to stake out opposing viewpoints for a few reasons. One of the bigger ones is getting more work published, which can lead to a larger salary, and this can be true on both sides of an idea.

Unfortunately it doesn't tend to result in a whole lot of constructive discussion about something when it's strictly antagonistic. Occasionally it's constructive, ie "your model is inaccurate, but I've modified it and now it works much better", but most of the time it;s just, "your model is inaccurate", which isn't very helpful.
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