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Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

2010; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 328; Issue: 5979 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.328.5979.689

1095-9203

Peter H. Gleick, Richard M. Adams, Richard M. Amasino, Eric Anders, D.J. Anderson, Wyatt W. Anderson, Luc Anselin, Mary Kalin Arroyo, Befekadu Asfaw, Francisco J. Ayala, Ad Bax, Anthony Bebbington, G. Bell, Michael V. L. Bennett, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, May R. Berenbaum, O. B. Berlin, Pamela J. Björkman, E. Blackburn, J. E. Blamont, Michael R. Botchan, Joseph Boyer, E. A. Boyle, Daniel Branton, Steven P. Briggs, W. R. Briggs, Warren Brill, Roy J. Britten, W. S. Broecker, J. H. Brown, Patrick O. Brown, Axel T. Brünger, John Cairns, Donald E. Canfield, S. R. Carpenter, James C. Carrington, A. R. Cashmore, J. C. Castilla, Anny Cazenave, F. Stuart Chapin, Aaron Ciechanover, David E. Clapham, W. C. Clark, Robert N. Clayton, M. D. Coe, E. M. Conwell, Ellis B. Cowling, Richard M. Cowling, C.S. Cox, Rodney Croteau, Donald M. Crothers, P. J. Crutzen, Gretchen C. Daily, G. Brent Dalrymple, Jeffery L. Dangl, Seth A. Darst, David R. Davies, Margaret B. Davis, P. V. de Camilli, Caroline Dean, Ruth DeFries, J. Deisenhofer, Deborah P. Delmer, Edward F. DeLong, David J. DeRosier, T.O. Diener, Rodolfo Dirzo, J. Dixon, Michael J. Donoghue, R.F. Doolittle, Thomas Dunne, P. R. Ehrlich, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Thomas Eisner, Kerry Emanuel, S. Walter Englander, E. Ernst, P. G. Falkowski, G. Fehér, John Ferejohn, A. Fersht, E. H. Fischer, R. Fischer, K. V. Flannery, J.M. Frank, Perry A. Frey, Irwin Fridovich, Carl Frieden, Douglas J. Futuyma, W. R. W. Gardner, C. J. R. Garrett, Will Gilbert, Robert B. Goldberg, Wesley Goodenough, Corey S. Goodman, Michael S. Goodman, Paul Greengard, Sarah Hake, G. Hammel, Stuart Hanson, Stephen C. Harrison, Stanley R. Hart, Daniel L. Hartl, Robert Haselkorn, Kristen Hawkes, James M. Hayes, Bertil Hille, T. Hökfelt, J. S. House, Michael Hout, D. M. Hunten, Iván Izquierdo, A. T. Jagendorf, Daniel H. Janzen, Raymond Jeanloz, C. Jencks, William A. Jury, H. Ronald Kaback, T. Kailath, Paul Kay, Susanna Kay, Donald Kennedy, Andrew Kerr, RC Kessler, G. S. Khush, S. W. Kieffer, Patrick Vinton Kirch, Kelly Kirk, M. G. Kivelson, Judith P. Klinman, A. Klug, L. Knopoff, Harry A. Kornberg, John E. Kutzbach, Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Kurt Lambeck, Arthur Landy, C. H. Langmuir, Brian A. Larkins, Xavier Pichon, Richard E. Lenski, E. B. Leopold, Simon A. Levin, Marc T. Levitt, Gene E. Likens, Jennifer Lippincott‐Schwartz, L. Lóránd, C. Owen Lovejoy, Michael J. Lynch, Akin L. Mabogunje, Thomas F. Malone, Syukuro Manabe, Joyce Marcus, Douglas S. Massey, James C. McWilliams, E. Medina, H. J. Melosh, David J. Meltzer, Charles D. Michener, Edward L. Miles, H. A. Mooney, Paul B. Moore, F. M. M. Morel, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, Beverly J. Moss, Walter Munk, Nicholas E. Myers, G. Balakrish Nair, Jeremy Nathans, Eugene W. Nester, Roger A. Nicoll, Richard P. Novick, John F. O’Connell, Paul E. Olsen, Neil D. Opdyke, George Oster, Элинор Остром, Norman R. Pace, Robert T. Paine, Richard D. Palmiter, Joseph Pedlosky, Gregory A. Petsko, G. H. Pettengill, S. George Philander, Dolores R. Piperno, Thomas D. Pollard, P. B. Price, P. A. Reichard, Barbara F. Reskin, Robert E. Ricklefs, Ronald L. Rivest, J. Dale Roberts, A. Kimball Romney, M.G. Rossmann, D. W. Russell, W. J. Rutter, Jeremy A. Sabloff, R. Z. Sagdeev, Marshall Sahlins, Alex Salmond, JR Sanes, Randy Schekman, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Diètrich Schindler, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, Stephen H. Schneider, V. L. Schramm, Ronald R. Sederoff, Carla J. Shatz, Fred Sherman, Richard L. Sidman, Kerry Sieh, Ε. L. Simons, Burton H. Singer, Maxine Singer, Brian Skyrms, Norman H. Sleep, B. D. Smith, S. H. Snyder, Robert R. Sokal, C. S. Spencer, T.A. Steitz, Karen B. Strier, Thomas C. Südhof, S. S. Taylor, John Terborgh, David Hurst Thomas, L. G. Thompson, Robert Tjian, Martin Turner, Seiya Uyeda, James W. Valentine, J.S. Valentine, James L. Van Etten, K. E. Van Holde, M.J. Vaughan, S. Verba, Peter H. von Hippel, David B. Wake, Andrew Walker, John E. Walker, E. B. Watson, Phil J. Watson, Detlef Weigel, Susan R. Wessler, Mary Jane West‐Eberhard, T D White, W.J. Wilson, R. V. Wolfenden, John A. Wood, G. M. Woodwell, Helena Wright, Cheng Wu, Carl Wunsch, Mary Lou Zoback,

Climate Change Communication and Perception

We are deeply disturbed by the recent escalation of political assaults on scientists in general and on climate scientists in particular. All citizens should understand some basic scientific facts. There is always some uncertainty associated with scientific conclusions; science never absolutely proves anything. When someone says that society should wait until scientists are absolutely certain before taking any action, it is the same as saying society should never take action. For a problem as potentially catastrophic as climate change, taking no action poses a dangerous risk for our planet.