Climate science has reached the point that plate tectonics reached 30 years ago. It is the basic view of the vast majority of working scientists that human-induced climate change is real. There is a real diversity of informed opinion on how important climate change is going to be to various things that affect humans, and there is a diversity of opinion on how to address this problem, but the debate over human-induced climate change is over.—
Ken Caldeira (via azspot)
Listen, scientific consensus is a useless consensus. Science is not and should not be decided by what is popular-...
And can I just say, there are a lot of economists on this list. :)
A good read for anyone who says “global warming is not caused by man’s misuse of this planet” : azspot: