Good points about public perception of science, etc.
I heard someone talk about a sort of checklist of hurdles to overcome before denial of climate change could be overcome
(see below).
"git-r-done!" ??
Speaking of doing something....
Sometimes one isn't very far along on the spectrum of "Threshold for Action."
1. See that a problem exists.
2. See that it is serious.
3. See that there is a root cause.
4. Be certain of views.
5. Be certain that it is solvable.
...and speaking of certainty....
There is a lot of language of uncertainty in those two scientific papers (Schwartz & Levitus) quoted in that previous post #196.
But it is just an uncertainty of refinements and new data (respectively) regarding climate change; not uncertainty in the whole body of climate change science.
Did anyone notice that quote at the end of #196 from Beltrami, et al., on Heating of the Earths Crust?
"These fluxes indicate that 30% of the heat gained by the ground in the last five centuries was deposited during the last fifty years, and over half of the five-century heat gain occurred during the 20th century."
...not equivocal.
That's a new, and fairly dramatic, "Hockey Stick!"
Again, it's not widely validated (yet); but taken meta-analytically, it is another point on the Anthro side.
p.s.
Schwartz's low, 5 year, quotient of the relaxation time constant (equilibrium climate sensitivity) augers well for the "solvability" part of the equation; but I have to suspect that it's really at least double that.
