‘However, correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t engineering types supposed to be more conservative than most?’
Like the engineers who build bridges ten times stronger than they need be ‘just in case’? Who worry about the 1 in a million chance that something may go drastically wrong and take precautions against it? Who go out and test the theories to make sure that they really reflect the real world? And who put their professional judgement on the line every time they create something? If it stays together and works..fine. if it doesn’t, then the engineer;s name is mud…and he may also be in court om serious charges.
Seems to me that the engineers are the guys to trust, not the noisy but slapdash climatologists.