Dr. Curry, et al:
A number of years ago, at Slashdot, I wrote that as scientists we had better be right about global warming because if we are wrong, science will be the ultimate casualty. I still believe that. “Science” as seen by those who are not scientists, has told us that the world is warming quickly, that we are the cause and that drastic action is needed. “Science” has told us that this is an absolute certainty. “Science” has made an absolute statement about a field that is inherently uncertain. Indeed the very definition of chaos.
I will repeat this again, particularly to Gavin.
You’d better be right.
Because if you are wrong, some idiot will point to you and demand creationism be taught as equal to evolution, that homeopathy is real medicine, that plate tectonics is a conspiracy theory, that any number of idiocies be equated to science. And I for one will hold you accountable. And a hundred years from now, if science recovers from the damage done, scientists will look at this period in history in shame.
If sea levels start to decline, there will be hell to pay in “Science”. Because that is one thing that has NEVER been posited as an outcome of global warming. That is Trenberth’s reverse falsification.
JE