Are scientists overrated? Would it be just as good to just take a career politician who married Teresa Heinz, and make him the climate envoy?

[Anonymous]

President Biden said that the most existential threat facing humanity is climate change.

Would it make more sense to appoint an actual climate scientist, instead of a lawyer, to be the climate envoy?

(Kerry is on the right)

[sawno]

Its especially overrated when "The experts" claim something.
Simple example, I enjoy using AI's in my free time. The people we have fun with are experts in prompting AI's for fiction. They know exactly what to do to get good results, came up with prompting techniques, etc.

Meanwhile the researchers who are supposed to know it do brand new findings we discovered 2 years ago. Or they completely do their research wrong because they have no idea and didn't spend the thousands of collective hours into it.

Meanwhile in other more politicized fields such as climate research they always highlight the researchers and papers that fit the political ambitions, censoring and ignoring the rest. Same happened in the lockdown era where everything critical of the vaccines and promoting alternatives was stuck in pre-print. And absolutely awful studies were published and then later retracted.

So people saying they trust the science I always call bullshit on, they don't. They trust whatever the media tells them the science says.

[Asker]

Exactly!

[Anonymous]

Gotta love Lurch, er Kerry. He's such a clown.

[Asker]

I'm glad you caught the "Lurch" thing. lol

[BourbonAndBacon]

When I was in grade 2 we were told that the world was cooling and we were heading to an ice age if we didn't start conserving energy and turning off the lights when we left the room. When I graduated from high school we were told that there was global warming and the world would burn up if we didn't start conserving energy and stop using aerosol deodorant. Climate scientists are the little boy that cried wolf too many times. I can't even count on them for a next day forecast and I can't take anyone serious who thinks farting cows is a problem.

[Asker]

Great comment. I don't blame the scientists for this, I blame the fat cat politicians. Scientists have ways to solve this, but the politicians don't want it solved, they just want your money.

[ThrillSeeker01]

I think some scientists can be overrated, but also they are important