re: #134 Decatur Deb

I can see that it’s good for academics, but the controversy has been used to poison the political well. Our reaction to climate change will not fall back on science until the problem is so obvious that “cheap” corrections might not be possible.

The political well is already poisoned, that’s the problem. Those few activist scientists made a major misstep when they blurred the lines between science and politics.

Climate scientists, knowingly or not, become proxies for political battles. The consequence is that science, as a form of open and critical enquiry, deteriorates while the more appropriate forums for ideological battles are ignored.

By overplaying their cards they have ended up with a busted flush as the polarization and intense antagonism [of politics] is now found in some areas of climate science.