Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Global Warming Propaganda

I just read another AGW propaganda story masquerading as a "science story." The premise of the Australian agency's press release is that a new report shows some marine species' habitats have already shifted southward to beat the heat. I found only two purported "facts" described as such in the article. Go ahead and try to find them, because every other sentence has a verb in a future tense or subjuntive mood. Here they are: 1)"Already, nesting sea turtles, yellow-fin tuna, dugongs and stinging jellyfish are examples of marine life moving south as seas warm"; and 2)"Worse, oceans are becoming more acidic as carbon dioxide levels continue to rise in the atmosphere." The only present tense sentence constructions in the entire story describing climate impacts. Everything else is will, may, would, could, or "likely to be". And those two "facts" are not even supported yet. The coral bleaching the report talks about is not a gradual thing seen in slowly warming water, but rather a mass of warm and acidic water developing and migrating before dissipating, which is not totally understood yet. Just another example of the poor writing found in science reporting today.

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