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Steven E. Koonin, fisico teorico, parla sul Wall Street Journal delle difficoltà nello studiare i cambiamenti climatici e le loro cause. Secondo lo studioso, la scienza non ha ancora gli strumenti per farlo con la necessaria precisione.

Policy makers and the public may wish for the comfort of certainty in their climate science. But I fear that rigidly promulgating the idea that climate science is “settled” (or is a “hoax”) demeans and chills the scientific enterprise, retarding its progress in these important matters. Uncertainty is a prime mover and motivator of science and must be faced head-on. It should not be confined to hushed sidebar conversations at academic conferences.