[geo] Re: Prescriptive statements in scientific papers

2011-07-23 Thread Ken Caldeira
David, In practice, that is what I do in public talks. I usually spend most of the talk on science and then i announce that i am moving from science to my own personal value-laden opinions and proceed to make a raft of prescriptive statements. If this is done in a written paper, I could live

[geo] RE: Prescriptive statements in scientific papers

2011-07-23 Thread Rau, Greg
Thanks, Dave, for the careful read and perspectives. I too am somewhat confused by the demarcation that Ken refers to. Isn't the entire field of geoengineering prescriptive and hence not science by Ken's definition? How can the science body IPCC publish numerous prescriptive tomes on CO2