[beaconstudios]

you'd want to make that specifically US climate scientists - physicists or geneticists don't have relevant authority on the subject.

[phaemon]

Ok, not geneticists, but radiative transfer is physics. What else would it be?

[beaconstudios]

everything is physics at the fundamental level, but that doesn't make physicists qualified to talk about everything. Climatology is its own field tied to Meteorology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatology

[phaemon]

I didn't mean that I'd expect a physicist to understand every part of Climatology. I meant that I'd expect any competent physicist to understand the basic principles of the greenhouse effect, because that part is physics.

[beaconstudios]

of course, but my understanding is that the debate isn't over whether the climate is changing, but whether it is driven primarily by human activity or a natural periodic system. A general physicist is probably not well placed to answer that question.

[peteretep]

It's still something like 97% though

[dexterdog]

Source? Please don't say Cook.

[peteretep]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveys_of_scientists'_views...

[basurihn]

Yes. Cook.

[dexterdog]

So IOW, not climate scientists, but just anybody he could classify as a scientist.