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RE: Changing temperatures in Antarctica could lead to population loss of over 70 % for the King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus), putting them at serious risk for the future
My husband, who is a physicist, said that in the world of science, global warming is controversial topic, and that, there is no global warming; it's just a cycle. This global warming has been experienced periodically. Moreover, global warming is a hot topic, and scientists get funding to research on it; that's why it is always discussed.
Hi, I'm an environmental microbiologist who works with climate change scientists. Global warming is not controversial, in fact scientists love to argue and split hairs, but we're somehow over 97% agreed that global climate change is occurring, is man-made, and is not a good thing. While the Earth does experience periodic climate shifts, the scale and velocity the current change cannot be explained by purely natural causes - only models which incorporate human behavior work. There are tons of cool things to research and which get funding. I have never met a climate scientist who was in it for the money, and even if there are some who are, they can't have a successful career running some sort of science 'hoax'. The lovely thing about science is that it is self-correcting and you can't get away with stuff like that for long and remain respectable in the profession; if that were possible people could still be researching cold fusion, for example.