Hot and cold on global warming
As The Guardian’s “science correspondent” Ian Sample panics over the melting of Siberian ice, global warming has taken a firm grip on Australia…with unprecedented snowfall.
"America is often portrayed as an ignorant, unsophisticated sort of place, full of bible bashers and ruled to a dangerous extent by trashy television, superstition and religious bigotry, a place lacking in respect for evidence based knowledge. I know that is how it is portrayed because I have done my bit to paint that picture..." BBC's Washington correspondent Justin Webb, in a remarkably frank admission of his role in misinforming the British public about America and Americans
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Mr Callahan obviously misunderstands the word unprecedented. This word means literally something without precedent, i.e. something that has never happened before, which is how he describes the snowfall in Australia,despite the news article's first paragraph describing the event only as having happened " for the first time in decades."Later in the article the snowfalls are labelled the heaviest in 50 years. Also the idea that Global Warming is a simple uniform process which has no room for anomalies and transitory fluctuations is a naive and simple-minded view of a complex system.
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