Agreed. I support green new deal and I think we should be doing all we can to combat climate change,
not because I have studied it and concluded it is a problem but because some very smart people have, and have come to that conclusion. But I would not sign a letter saying that I have concluded, AS A SCIENTIST, that it is a problem we can do something about. That turns a scientific investigation into a popularity contest. I don't want to be one the 97% that Peter Mueller is talking about in his response (currently second in the list, I think) to:
https://www.quora.com/It-is-claimed-that-97-of-climate-scientists-state-that-anthropogenic-climate-change-is-real-What-evidence-do-the-3-who-dont-think-so-have-What-are-some-good-counterarguments-to-their-claims
On 08/20/2019 09:23 PM, Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
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> Since when does being a structural biologist make us experts in climatology,
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> and isn't it a breach of basic ethical practice and professionalism as scientists
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> to sign on as authors to an article for which we have neither contributed
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> research nor intellectual content of the manuscript? Are we now going against
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> the standard to which the editorial policies of leading reputable biological
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> journals normally hold us as authors? And doesn't it hurt the credibility
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> of a serious scientific article, its authors, and the journal in which it appears
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> if biologists with no expertise in earth science/astrophysics appear
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> without humility as authors to such an article?
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> Are you not embarrassed to put your name to an article that uses physical
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> sciences data as a platform for preaching about religion, politics, and economic
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> theory ("...social and economic justice for all...")?
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> Does it not upset you when someone unfamiliar with structural biology draws
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> firm conclusions that heavily depend on the part of a structural model that has high
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> B-factors? So why are you unconcerned that you may be guilty of an analogous
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> error when, as structural biologists, you put your name to a controversial interpretation
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> of selected earth science data? See, for example,
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> https://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2017/02/24/living-warm-peak-ice-ages/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.agu.org_geospace_2017_02_24_living-2Dwarm-2Dpeak-2Dice-2Dages_&d=DwMFaQ&c=ogn2iPkgF7TkVSicOVBfKg&r=cFgyH4s-peZ6Pfyh0zB379rxK2XG5oHu7VblrALfYPA&m=LfePZHA4gOg8bnjmaYKYkoqTIFbSh_3nRLCNhk-sURs&s=2kt0JhKFcXo_sdWpN2wW87x3uPKaKcXgcHX6UNJoNgw&e=> about the ways
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> climate data can be misinterpreted by choosing too tight a time interval, and lets stick to
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> structural biology and allied sciences in the CCP4 list, please.
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> Respectfully,
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> Daniel M. Himmel
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