Again and again. Do you have to take a stupid pill every day to be a reporter? Or are reporters like this one speaking down to their audience. Either way, it's shocking.
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In this piece Roger Bate, Donald Roberts and Richard Tren accuse the UN of "Scientific Fraud against DDT".
Rather than a real song this week, I instead point you to an internet classic, inspired by those Wilford Brimley commercials you see during The Price is Right.
Went to bed with a headache, woke up intermittently during the night to find it still there, and got up in the morning with the same headache or one very similar to it. So I took an aspirin, which stuck in my throat, as pills usually do. I figured it would slide down along with my breakfast.
Currently, AIDS patients must take a complicated regimen of many different kinds of pills to ward off the virus.
The effects of climate change on the weather are only going to get worse. Much worse. We've seen how much public opinion changed after Sandy and the wild fires in Texas. Imagine where that opinion will be after nearly every local gets hammered by some weather related disaster.
Whatever deniers are left will be fair game. In fact who ever was a well-known denier may be fair game. Fair game for what? I don't know. What ever crazies out there might it in for them. Glad I'm not one of them... The deniers that is.
Hmm. Shocked? I've seen worse.
Actually, I was pleasantly suprised to sse that Hansen is getting pretty good at communicating in that format, though some problems remain. Most people probably don't carry around a fluent understanding of 'sensitivity' for instance.
The journalist was struggling for a sound bite. Hansen was wandering dangerously close to the weeds. That format requires a meeting in the middle as far as concise language is concerned, IMO.
The "revised forecast" refers to a five year prediction from an experimental decadal model. The BBC journalist is trying to resurrect the crank claims about it that the Met Office debunked at the time, back in January: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2013/decadal-forecasts