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MIKE L say: No , Mann and Hanson should not call for Carbon taxes
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say: If scientists and science itself are under unrelenting attack by dedicated political liars who dominate the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the federal government, then there can be little question in the mind of any honest, concerned and informed citizen.
It is only an issue of how to fight back, and who should lead the fighting, not whether to fight back.
If the minority party is in the hands of the biggest group of political cowards in recent human history, and the mainstream news media have for years been dumbing down trying to compete with attention deficit disorder social media, that further reduces the alternatives to scientists becoming political advocates in order to protect science, knowledge, truth and democracy itself.
Should scientists be political advocates as a first resort? NO
As a last resort? Yes
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ray say: yes. they live on the same planet
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Kano say: Scientists can be political advocates, if they get democratically elected.
Otherwise they are allowed to have their opinions (free speech) but decision making is a different matter from research.
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Moe say: AGW scientist consistently insert their opinions in their "scientific" conclusions.
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Raisin Caine say: It depends on what they are protesting about. If they are protesting to say their findings are correct, that is entirely different from protesting to suggest specific ACTIONS.
There is some warming. Much of the warming is due to man. What we don't know is the long term effects. All of the claims of catastrophe have very little supporting data.
Regardless, even if the scientists were SURE of the catastrophic affects, they are NOT economists and do not know the best methods of reducing global warming.
Acting as if science can lead to the best political solutions is really stupid and something all scientists should avoid regardless the issue.