npj Climate Action (May 2024)

The importance of distinguishing climate science from climate activism

  • Ulf Büntgen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-024-00126-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 2

Abstract

Read online

I am concerned by climate scientists becoming climate activists, because scholars should not have a priori interests in the outcome of their studies. Likewise, I am worried about activists who pretend to be scientists, as this can be a misleading form of instrumentalization.