Michael Tobis wrote: > While cutting down Amazon rainforest somewhat decreases net rainfall > in model experiments, I don't think there's any seriously postulated > atmospheric conditions that could make it have a Sahara-like drought. > Do correct me if I'm wrong. > > Similarly, if the sun were to go nova we'd all be incinerated in a > day. That doesn't mean the sun is going nova. We have enough problems > without making stuff up. > > Presumably the experiment had some serious motivation, but the article > doesn't really explain why it was done. Obviously incompetent > journalism is a major problem on climate issues. I don't think it's > because it's all that complicated, though > > I wonder if for-profit journalism even makes sense.
Well, bizarre as it might seem, Gavin has just cited that article as an example of "good" coverage of the story (first link in his commentary <http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=333>. It seems he has found something even worse (also by Lean in the Indy, no surprise there)! James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
