Dr. Lucky Tran Jun 21, 2023

Let’s get this right. Scientists didn’t fail to communicate the risks of #climatechange, they have been warning us for a century. Our policies are failing because after knowing the risks, fossil fuel companies spent billions of dollars blocking meaningful action on #climate.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/

Catch-22: Scientific communication failures linked to faster-rising seas

Scientists failed for decades to communicate the coming risks of rapid sea-level rise to policymakers and the public, a new study has found. That has created a climate catch-22 in which scientists have soft-pedaled the kinds of catastrophic risks most easily headed off by cutting emissions. While scientific communication has improved in the 2020s, this…

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They are describing a real problem - particular risk areas couldn’t be quantified due to insufficient research thus creating an “ambiguity” in which mitigation policymaking was stuck for decades. The attribution is however incorrect, as research funding is also primary a policy matter, so once again the insufficient research can be blamed on the policymakers, not scientists who do the job they’re paid for.

Jun 21, 2023 at 8:54amWeb