Why We Don’t Need To ‘Trust’ Climate Scientists
We don’t need everyone to trust climate change science to take the necessary action: uniting values is more important.
This story is co-authored with Dr. Sílvia PM, PhD 🍂, macroecologist and conservation paleobiologist.
Last week, Dr. Silvia PM and I published a story about why some people are reluctant to trust climate scientists. We explained how the science we publish on the topic is usually closely scrutinized for replicability and authenticity.
We also discussed how the scientific method we follow to publish our research is designed to ensure the data is properly collected, analyzed, and evaluated. Therefore, getting something “false” published in a peer-reviewed journal would be very hard. Whereas thousands of research papers have repeatedly been published supporting the same conclusion: climate change is happening, and human-induced greenhouse gases are to blame.
Dr. PM and I understand that some people in the non-scientific community may be reluctant to accept our science because they ultimately don’t know what goes behind it. However, we were hopeful that understanding this would make people think.
