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摘要

In "The Science Police" (Issues, Summer 2017), Keith Kloor alleges that self-appointed sheriffs in the scientific community are censoring or preventing research showing that the risks from climate change are low or manageable. His complaint draws support from scientific articles that, he claims, suggested that "a main avenue of climate research (natural variability) should be ignored" and that discouraged climate scientists from investigating a recent phenomenon often identified as a "pause" or "slowdown" in the rate of global warming. We authored those articles, and we stated the exact opposite. Contrary to Kloor's fabricated claim, we encouraged research on natural climate variability, including the recent alleged slowdown in warming.