Letters to the Editor
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Does Camille read any of this?
If she does then I'd like to tell her that even ideas that have longed been accepted by the scientific community at large still have doubters and dissenters, who keep doubting and dissenting after they've been proven wrong.
For example, it would be wrong to claim that cience is unaninmous on quantum mechanics. Einstein was against it, and there are still physicists today who insist the world is deterministic.
But look at how much modern technology now depends on quantum theory. The computer I'm posting this on for example.
Even though quantum mechanics is now a standard part of the physics curriculum, even though quantum mechanics is essential to the design of most new technology that enters the marketplace, there still exist a few holdouts who don't like the idea of relinquishing determinism. They refuse to let it go, so they keep the door open for alternatives.
The rest of the world is not sitting quietly and waiting for those last few quantum mechanics holdouts to finally prove their case.
Think of how much progress in technology would have been delayed if everyone in physics and engineering had waited for those few last holdouts against quantum mechanics to come around before they started making lasers and solid state transistors.
The world should not sit quietly and wait for those last few global warming holdouts to come around either.