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Related: About this forumThese 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.
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
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)1. Then they cant be scientists as that is not what scientists do.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)2. "Scientists"? nt
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)3. Personally, I want to be there when the
climate change caused flood wipes out their homes.
I bet they will whine and run to the government and ask for help.
Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)4. Scientists employed by the petroleum-chemical industry.
Just a guess.