From the article …
It’s incredibly important to think about how we phrase our
understanding of the world, as well as how we can make our ideas more
relevant, interesting, and clear to the public. Don’t believe me?
Just ask the climate scientists
It’s definitely true, and I enjoyed the article. I would even take this all one step further and suggest that there remains much that could be done to make science more understandable to laypeople. We’ve really not even begun to explore the possibilities, to be honest.
However, in the case of the climate models, it’s wrong to cast the lack of consensus entirely upon how the message is crafted. We hear this stated repeatedly in the media, but it’s not at all impossible to find nuanced scientific arguments against manmade global warming. In fact, it’s not even hard to find people at NASA that aren’t all that impressed by James Hansen.
