CLIMATE CHANGE: IT’S HOW YOU TELL IT
Apr. 2nd, 2010 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogYr Fear Trumps Science headline of the day:
By “conflicting evidence”, they primarily mean “climategate” (those leaked emails from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit supposedly exposing a conspiracy to fake climate change evidence) and "glaciergate" (the retraction of the claim by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that there was a "very high" chance of glaciers disappearing from the Himalayas by 2035).
Neither of which amounted to debunking climate change, but evidently that doesn’t seem to matter.
Let that be a lesson to you: baseless scary stories are more believable than peer-reviewed scientific figures. Which is why we’re basically doomed.
BONUS MATERIALS: The EIU findings are here if you want to go over them.
Off the fence,
This is dF
By “conflicting evidence”, they primarily mean “climategate” (those leaked emails from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit supposedly exposing a conspiracy to fake climate change evidence) and "glaciergate" (the retraction of the claim by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that there was a "very high" chance of glaciers disappearing from the Himalayas by 2035).
Neither of which amounted to debunking climate change, but evidently that doesn’t seem to matter.
Let that be a lesson to you: baseless scary stories are more believable than peer-reviewed scientific figures. Which is why we’re basically doomed.
BONUS MATERIALS: The EIU findings are here if you want to go over them.
Off the fence,
This is dF
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on 2010-04-02 06:34 pm (UTC)http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8594000/8594561.stm
well... it's easy for a 90-year-old to say.