Most people presume that scientists err on the side of caution. They don’t; engineers do. Scientists err on the side of predicting the least dramatic outcome. It is too bad scientists rather than engineers have been in charge of explaining global warming to the public. Scientists consider it unseemly to show alarm, even when a tiger is about bite your head off. They believe it shows a lack of scientific detachment. If mass extinctions of the human race from the many side effects of global warming are not worthy of expressing a little alarm over, I don’t know what is.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)