defrog: (science do)
defrog ([personal profile] defrog) wrote2010-04-02 09:22 pm

CLIMATE CHANGE: IT’S HOW YOU TELL IT

Yr 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

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