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False advertising in the greenhouse?
Author(s) -
Banse K.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
global biogeochemical cycles
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.512
H-Index - 187
eISSN - 1944-9224
pISSN - 0886-6236
DOI - 10.1029/91gb02690
Subject(s) - temptation , greenhouse effect , environmental science , relevance (law) , great barrier reef , atmosphere (unit) , greenhouse , oceanography , history , climate change , meteorology , political science , global warming , geography , psychology , geology , social psychology , law , biology , reef , horticulture
Most scientists are convinced of the importance of their own research subjects. Broecker [1991] has deplored the temptation, if not the tendency, to go overboard and exaggerate this importance once funding enters the mind. In particular, he alleges inflated or even false claims by biological (and other) oceanographers regarding the relevance of their research to the “greenhouse effect,” caused by the anthropogenic enhancement of the atmospheric CO 2 content. He writes [Broecker, 1991, p. 191]: “In my estimation, on any list of subjects requiring intense study with regard to the prediction of the consequences of CO 2 buildup in the atmosphere, I would place marine biological cycles near the bottom.”