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  • Discussion about the climate change

    Posted on February 9th, 2010 Jessica P. No comments

    Climate change is an actual and much discussed topic. Several global meetings have been done about the climate, considering the importance of climate change in our life. Giving this great interest of politicians and international institutions, scientists that work on this field are undergone to strong pressure by public opinion. As well as in all other scientific disciplines, also climatology has important gaps in understanding and a lot of work still to be done. Scientists’ community discussed and still discusses this problem, because its credibility could be easily damaged by misunderstandings or skepticism.
    desertResearchers concluded that they must be honest about their knowledge and their gaps, in order to give the exact value to overall conclusions. Furthermore, scientists must learn about scientific communication to general public. Indeed, it has been reported that personal value determines the reaction and the opinion about climate change. People and government that have an individualist vision rather than egalitarian, tend to reject the evidence on climate change. So, it’s important that scientists can provide scientific explanations based on observational evidences in order to overcome some useless and irrational skepticism. Further discussions and opportunities to talk about environmental risk must be directly organized by scientific community giving the importance of these theme for all human beings.

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