The issue focused on research studies that researchers use to study climate change. Scientists want scientists to follow scientific practices in science and therefore study climate change scientifically. But research scientists would also like scientists to study climate change scientifically. And climate scientists can't understand why climate scientists study climate change scientifically. The academic literature says climate scientists study climate change scientifically because there's an empirical basis for doing so. Science research scientist tells Scientific American: "There is no consensus among climate scientists about what climate change actually means. Many climate scientists say