[dls2016]

This part of climate "science" always makes me put on my Popper hat. The social aspect of being the outlier (grants dry up, career goes away) makes me skeptical of the IPCC reports, just not in the usual direction. I fear reality could be much worse.

I can't ding the climate scientists too much, though... I'm not sure there's a better way to study this stuff.

[Angostura]

In this case have grants actually dried up or careers gone away? Nope.

[dls2016]

I don't think I implied they did. I'm only saying that humans are social creatures and that scientists are susceptible to peer pressure (even in "hard" sciences with lots of possibility for experiment). I imply no maliciousness, but am trying to voice my fear of the impossibility of knowing whether or not the consensus warming scenario is a "reversion to the social mean", that is, we just have to wait and see if warming is worse that expected.

But I'm only a bit surprised this would be such a controversial opinion here.