DrCaleb DrCaleb:
Nothing to do with Climate. That is my point. Suzuki is a Geneticist, and a climate activist. Take his rantings in context.
That's what's giving the denier-side so much energy. The real scientists say one thing that isn't flashy enough for the lazy pop-media we have, who then go to an activist or celebrity preaching doomsday in order to get the attention. It certainly doesn't do the believer side much credit, to constantly be in bed with what are effectively cam-whores making their case to the public for them. Cunning, maybe, as too many people are now so genuinely stupid that they automatically do what a celebrity tells them to. Being a star-fucker though causes nothing but damage to credibility when they turn out to be wrong and the celebrity spokespeople refuse to retract or revise their catastrophe-preaching.
$1:
Data doesn't have an opinion. Data is data. Conclusions drawn from data are also not opinion. If you have the credentials to interpret that data, then what you say does have weight and should be listened to, if warnings come with those observations.
It was more a reference to the denier side. Credentials are good but finding out (for example) that someone with credentials is also connected to Don Blankenship's coal company or to the Trump Org kind of erases the value of those certificates altogether.