[pp.int.general] Global heating: 2 degrees of heating is 16 years away

[Richard Stallman]

    It states that String theory basically is the only seriously researched
    field in physics, because other research was just not funded.

A focus on string theory does not invalidate the results that string
theory researches have found.  (These results do not conclusively
support string theory.)  At worst, what he says would imply that some
other interesting lines of theoretical investigation ought to have
been followed more.

If something like this were true of climate research, it would not
invalidate the results of that research, which demonstrate that CO2
(and methane) emissions are taking the world towards disaster.
So the point is a red herring.

But I don't believe it is true, either, in climate research.  There is
a lot of climate research -- lots more funding than there is in
theoretical physics.  It comes from many sources and research goes
along many lines.  A lot of it is experimental, involved in measuring
various aspects of climate over time.

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