Judith Curry
JC message to the alarmed scientist/advocates:
Get over it, your side lost. Changes of Presidential administrations
occur every 4 or 8 years, often with changes in political parties.
Get busy and shore up your scientific arguments; I suspect that
argument from consensus won’t sway many minds in the Trump
administration.
Overt activism and climate policy advocacy by climate scientists will
not help your ’cause’; leave such advocacy to the environmental groups.
Behave like a scientist, and don’t build elaborate conspiracy
theories based on vague conflicting signals from the Trump
administration. Stop embarrassing yourselves; wait for the evidence.
Be flexible; if funding priorities change, and you desire federal
research funding, work on different problems. The days of needing to
sell all research in terms of AGW are arguably over.
Open your minds to different perspectives and interpretations of scientific evidence.
If you are advocating for policies, do some serious homework about
the policy process, economics, and unintended consequences of
technologies and policies.
Understand that climate policies are not the only, or even primary, driver for energy policy."
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