Wayne Tyson wrote: > The problem is credibility of good science in the eyes > and minds of "the public."
The public is used to hearing rather wildly conflicting information about climate change from the scientific community. In 1974 some claimed that global cooling was a looming problem: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html More recently there have been accusations of fraud: On Oct. 6, 2010 Harold Lewis, emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara wrote this: http://calderup.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/hal-lewis-quits-aps/ "For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow [American Physical Society] all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society. It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare." Paul Cherubini
