Global warming: bad times for science

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I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. My field is earth sciences, related to certain aspects of climate change in the geological scale. Approximately 70 per cent of fellow researchers with whom I have discussed the matter think that we do not have sufficient information to be sure about the issue and that the pretended consensus is politically manufactured. The other 30 per cent do believe there is sufficient evidence in favour of the man-made global warming interpretation. My conversations have sampled scientists from Scotland to Gibraltar and from San Francisco to Moscow.
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This panorama is a distressing one for science. The case for man-made global warming has been made waving the banner of science. There are reasons to believe it is happening and reasons to believe it is not happening. But science has been given an authority that it does not have, as yet, to decide on the matter. Only the future will be able to decide the question. If the global warming theory is proved wrong, citizens will look at science with lack of trust and perhaps with contempt. So much of their lives is being altered on the basis of this "scientific truth". Science may have a darker future if citizens are disappointed about its reliability.

(Via ForzaMillan)