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GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 02:26 PM Mar 2017

These scientists want to create red teams to challenge climate research.

These scientists want to create ‘red teams’ to challenge climate research. Congress is listening

Prominent scientists operating outside the scientific consensus on climate change urged Congress on Wednesday to fund “red teams” to investigate “natural” causes of global warming and challenge the findings of the United Nations’ climate science panel.

The suggestion for a counter-investigative science force — or red team approach — was presented in prepared testimony by scientists known for questioning the influence of human activity on global warming. It comes at a time when President Trump and other members of the administration have expressed doubt about the accepted science of climate change, and are considering drastic cuts to federal funding for scientific research.

A main mission of red teams would be to challenge the scientific consensus on climate change, including the work of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose reports are widely considered the authority on climate science.

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These scientists want to create red teams to challenge climate research. (Original Post) GliderGuider Mar 2017 OP
Then they cant be scientists as that is not what scientists do. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #1
"Scientists"? nt GliderGuider Mar 2017 #2
Personally, I want to be there when the Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #3
Scientists employed by the petroleum-chemical industry. Phoenix61 Mar 2017 #4
Bingo. Duppers Mar 2017 #5

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
3. Personally, I want to be there when the
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 02:30 PM
Mar 2017

climate change caused flood wipes out their homes.

I bet they will whine and run to the government and ask for help.

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