Comment from Hovik
on the ECN list) what they attend to. The Arctic much less some zone of the dsiatnt stratosphere are simply not present. The tone may be exigent, but the examples have little exigence. Some hard-to-measure aspect of the geosphere is changing. So what's that mean to Joe the Plumber's neighbor lady?And they're changing in some hard-to-understand way. This is dsiatnt in language too abstract to be compelling, if not also to even be understood. That's the shop talk problem your method page mentions (and yes, I'm brand new to your blog & site and I am in major love with it!).Among other flaws, this press release is talking to who? Scientists? Talking to the public would be a better idea.So, they're talking *like* scientists; and yes, it's good and even critical that enviros establish credibility with gov't and science through showing they're conversant with that jargon.Chiding the media for not reporting that Dr. Hansene2€™s NASA team reports that atmospheric CO2 levels are already 10% higher than the limit required to maintain a climate to which humans and wildlife are adapted, and Oh, ugh! Shorter sentences, please! In plain English. With specifics, and not specifics about the science, but about the consequences for people we know, or could be, within our lifetime, or at least some other time period that has meaning. (The 100-year period, as I discovered working on Superfund cleanups, not only means next to nothing to most of the public, it has little effective meaning for accounting or regulators, either. Possible reason why they use it? Finally, I agree with the comments of everyone where's the solutions? The things anyone can do, right now, without being rich or powerful?On my reading, this press release is aimed at science reporters. As to why I can't imagine.
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Do you remember the 100 steps for socio-sconomic refmors that the Congress was proposing?I was and I still am very critical towards those steps. But my understanding is Congress has nothing else to put on a table today. (And should not put anything else, as they say those steps were accepted by zhoghovurd jan ). And if this is the case, then yes, this is a total failure.Unfortunately Congress did not mature enough to hold Government responsible and offer strong, realistic, effective reform scenarios. Neither any other opposition party did. And this is why we face what we face today.
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ARF, ARF, WHO LET THE DOGS OUT!
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1st Prize winner, in the beak of the week contest.
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