Why Don’t People Trust Climate Scientists?
Don’t be fooled — ignorance of the scientific method and how scientific research is conducted causes misinformation.
This story is co-authored with Dr. Sílvia PM, PhD 🍂
Both Dr. Sílvia PM and I are ecologists who have dedicated a good part of our research to climate change science. I’ve mostly worked on modern ecosystems, while Dr. PM has better expertise with the fossil record. This means that she has a good understanding of what caused past climate events, and the consequences of such climatic events (spoiler: they were not good and always caused by an external factor).
However, that is a story for another day. Today we want to address a common issue we encounter when we talk to the non-scientific community: scepticism.
It breaks our heart that, after so much work put into our research, some respond that they don’t trust our results. That they don’t trust what we say our data says.
Dr. PM and I have been discussing this issue back and forth, and have come to the following conclusion: people don’t trust Climate Change science…
