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45 BEACON Letter From Headqutersar Dealing Honestly with Uncer tainties in Our Understanding of c limate c hange arlier this year, I wrote of trying to neutralize the quickly seized by some as evidence that the research language associated with global warming (BAMS, results on the role of greenhouse gases in the warming E April 2011, p. 497). At that time, I suggested that of the planet must be wrong. In such a confrontational I would be using the terms “convinced” and “uncon- environment, the discomfor t we all feel in the face of vinced” to describe those who had been convinced by uncer tainty can make it hard to avoid compromising the evidence that anthropogenic climate change was our scientific objectivity. occurring and those who had not been convinced. In this issue, Judith c urr y and Peter Webster So far, I have found this terminology pretty easy to present a provocative paper on “uncer tainty mon- incorporate in my writing and speaking, and I find it sters.” many climate scientists will be angered by works pretty well. this paper, feeling that it undermines the consensus Shor tly af ter that column appeared, I received repor ts and calls their http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society American Meteorological Society

45 BEACON

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , Volume 92 (12): 17 – Dec 1, 2011
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Letter From Headqutersar Dealing Honestly with Uncer tainties in Our Understanding of c limate c hange arlier this year, I wrote of trying to neutralize the quickly seized by some as evidence that the research language associated with global warming (BAMS, results on the role of greenhouse gases in the warming E April 2011, p. 497). At that time, I suggested that of the planet must be wrong. In such a confrontational I would be using the terms “convinced” and “uncon- environment, the discomfor t we all feel in the face of vinced” to describe those who had been convinced by uncer tainty can make it hard to avoid compromising the evidence that anthropogenic climate change was our scientific objectivity. occurring and those who had not been convinced. In this issue, Judith c urr y and Peter Webster So far, I have found this terminology pretty easy to present a provocative paper on “uncer tainty mon- incorporate in my writing and speaking, and I find it sters.” many climate scientists will be angered by works pretty well. this paper, feeling that it undermines the consensus Shor tly af ter that column appeared, I received repor ts and calls their

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