This is very bad. (Probably asking journalists to act responsibly is
banging your head against a brick wall.)
It is presented as though two scientists at the Met office are
downplaying climate change, which I don't think is the case. But this
isn't some bought off deniers.
Harriet
> In an article published on the Guardian website, Dr Vicky Pope, head of
> climate change advice at the Met Office, calls on scientists and
> journalists to stop misleading the public with "claim and counter-claim".
>
> She writes: "Having to rein in extraordinary claims that the latest
> extreme [event] is all due to climate change is at best hugely frustrating
> and at worse enormously distracting. Overplaying natural variations in the
> weather as climate change is just as much a distortion of science as
> underplaying them to claim that climate change has stopped or is not
> happening."
2009/2/13 Oliver Tickell <[log in to unmask]>:
> What are these extreme claims anyway? What is this science that is not
> supporting them?
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