Follow-up: Climate Bullying

[jackofallgeeks]

This
is a follow-up article on the piece I liked to last week (I think) about a
BBC news story that got bullied into changing it's thrust from "temperatures
fall" to "Global Warming dips." They don't add a whole lot -- most of it
looks to be letters from readers -- but there are some comments from the
BBC, Fox, and the scientists who did the bullying. The Register also notes
that, apparently, a Global Warming advocate said that temperatures hadn't
risen "this century" (not sure if he meant since 1908 or since 2000), and
(The Register) reiterated that someone else had concluded that temperatures
hadn't risen since 1998 (but that's a decade, not a century).

Also, someone said that maybe it's not so much that the temperatures rising
as that the world is getting wetter or dryer. But, and I think The Register
implies this, there's something of a difference between "Global Warming" and
"Global Drying."

Comments

[bsgnome.livejournal.com]

My personal favorite:

Visiting a beach the other day the sea level was much higher when leaving than arriving, about 2 metres in 3 hours ! This proves that global warming and rising sea levels are the truth. Some local was spouting rubbish about tides but what would they know not being a proper environmental scientist.

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

I missed this () interesting graph. Uncited, but interesting.

Also, to substitute a word or two from the second-to-last guy:

There are those who, from the evidence they see say there is a God. There are those who do not. Whether there is a God or not is irrelevant because if we wait for the evidence to be confirmed it will be too late to do anything about it.

Nah, this isn't religious: it's pure science.