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| News Date | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | 14 January 2009
— gavin @ 5:26 PM
With the axing of the CNN Science News team, most science stories at CNN are now being given to general assignment reporters who don't necessarily have the background to know when they are being taken for a ride. On the Lou Dobbs show (an evening news program on cable for those of you not in the US), the last few weeks have brought a series of embarrassing non-stories on 'global cooling' based it seems on a few cold snaps this winter, the fact that we are at a solar minimum and a regurgitation of 1970s vintage interpretations of Milankovitch theory (via Pravda of all places!). Combine that with a few hysterical (in both senses) non-scientists as talking heads and you end up with a repeat of the nonsensical 'Cooling world' media stories that were misleading in the 1970s and are just as misleading now.
Exhibit A. Last night's (13 Jan 2009) transcript (annotations in italics).
Note that this is a rush transcript and the typos aren't attributable to the participants. |
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