Lenny Smith, professor of statistics at the London School of Economics, said that scientists risk "blatantly overselling what we know. That could bring everything down and cost the world valuable time". Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
I'm not sure why this very short comment on human-caused global warming was selected - there's not much here. One professor makes the eminently reasonable request that organizations interested in climate change stick to sober and cautious - that is to say, "scientific" - interpretations of the [rapidly changing] known science.
The problem is, global climate change is here, and local effects (e.g. island inhabitants having to move) are already being felt. Some future predictions are more reliable than others - for example it's pretty clear what a 2 meter sea level rise would do to the Gulf Coast, or to Bangladesh, while we don't have accurate local predictions on changes in rainfall patterns. However it's pretty certain that mass dislocation will probably result and the areas it will occur can be easily predicted (wherever there are masses of poor people).