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

[Gijs Overvliet]

2012/7/28 Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org>

>     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.
>

He's physicist who does not work in the field of String theory, and has
enormous difficulty finding funding. Even though he himself has produced
papers that helped the field of theoretical physics move forward.
Worse than that, although he claims that research in String theory has done
much for science, it has done more for mathematics than for physics.

Also, if the funders don't like the direction your research is going, what
would prevent them from stopping the funding for your research?

The point is that funding is important in any scientific research. But then
again, climate science is obviously different.


>
> 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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