On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Alastair McDonald wrote:
> > Errrm, I thought my post was fairly clear: Hansen isn't saying it directly
> > (of
> > course not) but putting the two together is at the very least in danger of
> > misleading people.
>
> But Hansen was talking to a journalist.  They are not able to put two
> and two together, far less their readers.    If you are going to get the

THis is precisely why you shouldn't say what H seems to have said (and he isn't
the only one to have said similar).

> message across that global warming is serious, then you have to
> simplify it.  Why do you think that the message hasn't got over to
> the general public yet?

Partly because the public are being told things that appear to mean one thing
but don't really mean that thing.

_W.

> Cheers, Alastair.
>
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> >

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