Another Climate-Change Retraction 479
jamie writes "It seems every time someone twists global-warming science into 'good news,' a retraction is soon to follow, and so it must be for Slashdot. Yesterday, the conservative Wall Street Journal published yet another apologetic claiming 'the overall effect of climate change will be positive,' by someone who (of course) is not a climate scientist. Today, Climate Progress debunks the piece, noting 'Ridley and the WSJ cite the University of Illinois paper to supposedly prove that warming this century will be under 2C — when the author has already explained to them that his research shows the exact opposite!' We went through this same process last year, with the same author and the same paper, so it's pretty embarrassing that he 'makes a nearly identical blunder' all over again."
"pretty embarassing"? more like "pretty revealing" (Score:4, Funny)
"Whoops! I meant to make the same argument with a *different* paper!"
Science News Cycle (Score:5, Funny)
Relevant: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174 [phdcomics.com]
Re:Look over here, look over here! (Score:0, Funny)
*There are hundreds of millions of people on this planet who have no legitimate prospects for "adapting" in time to avert catastrophe.*
Dr. Darwin to the ER, stat
Dr. Darwin to the ER, stat
Re:"blunder" is far too kind a word for it (Score:5, Funny)
That's pretty much all the WSJ opinion page has ever been, at least since the 1980s when I used to steal it. The newspaper itself could have a great in-depth and well-researched story saying X, and on the opinion page the bloody editors would declare Y. George Will used to be particularly bad at doing that. He could lay out all the facts that would show why one of Ronnie Raygun's programs were going to be yet another disastrous unending money pit of fail, and then declare that the program should be supported 111%. All Murdoch has managed to do is get rid of some of the good investigative reporters that it used to have and change the format to something that no one likes.
Re:Look over here, look over here! (Score:3, Funny)
I think the point is, if millions of high carbon Americans 'adapt' then catastrophe might be averted.
Re:Look over here, look over here! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Look over here, look over here! (Score:5, Funny)
"Simple calculations suggest..."
Beware when the simple start calculating. It never ends well.
Re:Look over here, look over here! (Score:2, Funny)
"While the anti-Americans world-wide are wagging their fingers at the US, China is killing itself with pollution" Of course fingers are wagged at the U.S. Isn't the U.S. responsible for every evil ever created, past, present and future?