So What's the Big Deal About Climate Change?
Submitted by shrillczar on Tue, 2007-02-27 17:16.
My time as blogger of the month is almost through, so I'm going to end with a quote from a section of the EPA's Climate Change Kids Site called, "So What's the Big Deal?"
"It is important to understand that scientists don't know for sure what climate change will bring. Some changes brought about by climate change will be good. If you live in a very cool climate, warmer temperatures might be welcome. Days and nights could be more comfortable and people in the area may be able to grow different and better crops than they could before. But it is also true that changes in some places will not be very good at all."
One of my classmates pointed this gem out.
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why editorialise? Just put
why editorialise?
Just put it out an let your viewers decide.
Editorializing is part of what we do
Hi Anon,
Unlike straight news sites and those that pretend to be straight news sites, we at FGI have a point of view that we are unapologetic about.
As a result, we and our guest bloggers will call them as we see them. You might disagree and that's fine. We will always try to link to the original source we're commenting on, so you and others can make your own judgments about our views.
But as far as editorializing on docs related news, that is part of what we do as information advocates.
If you'd like a pure listing of government information resources, try Gary Price's Docuticker.
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"And besides all that, what we need is a decentralized, distributed system of depositing electronic files to local libraries willing to host them." -- Daniel Cornwall, tipping his hat to Cato the Elder for the original quote.
POV
and may I point out that the original document to which Chris linked also was editorializing? I think Chris was being constrained in his editorializing. What he should've said was:
That little quote is indicative of the entire document's political point of view. Sentences like "scientists don't know for sure..." "Scientists suspect..." and talking about being able to grow crops in new areas make it seem like this whole global warming thing will have beneficial effects as well as damaging ones. This is especially specious seeing as it's directed at children. Why didn't they just lead with Russian President Vladimir Putin's quote that global warming might even benefit countries like Russia as people "would spend less money on fur coats and other warm things"?! Global warming is real and will have massively deleterious effects the world over. It's time to give citizens -- including children -- the straight talk about it and stop all this equivocating.
Tom Tomorrow
Tom Tomorrow's recent cartoon says it all!
Courtesy of Salon.com!
Marsupial on your head!
I couldn't help posting one more comic :-)
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