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. > > > > > William M Connolley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/wmc/ Climate Modeller, British Antarctic Survey | (01223) 221479 If I haven't seen further, it's because giants were standing on my shoulders -- This message (and any attachments) is for the recipient only. NERC is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the contents of this email and any reply you make may be disclosed by NERC unless it is exempt from release under the Act. Any material supplied to NERC may be stored in an electronic records management system. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
