On 4 Jul 2003 02:07:30 -0700, (Michael
McNeil) wrote:



Bearing in mind who or rather what was in the White House when the UN
was set up, it is no suprise to find that this monument to imbeciles
is the most ineffectual peace keeping clod hopper one may imagine.

Uh, I suggest you look a little farther afield if you want to
find the imbeciles responsible. The WMO issued a press release.
Nothing more. Yes, it documented some interesting weather events, but
they were quite careful to tell a cautionary tale.

http://www.wmo.ch/web/Press/Press695.doc

CNN pulled the same stunt yesterday as The Independent. Here's
the first paragraph from the WMO statement:

Record extremes in weather and climate events continue to occur around
the world. Recent scientific assessments indicate that, as the
global temperatures continue to warm due to climate change, the number
and intensity of extreme events might increase, the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) states in a press release issued
today.

Here's CNN:

Anecdotal evidence that the world's weather is getting wilder now has
a solid scientific basis in fact following a dramatic global
assessment from the World Meteorological Organization.

And now we have The Independent:

In a startling report, the WMO, which normally produces detailed
scientific reports and staid statistics at the year's end, highlighted
record extremes in weather and climate occurring all over the world in
recent weeks, from Switzerland's hottest-ever June to a record month
for tornadoes in the United States - and linked them to climate
change.

There's a reason the media fail miserably doing news stories:
most of them are scientific illiterates. It shows too.