Keith Harris wrote:

On Saturday, 3 August 2019 17:32:29 UTC+1, Keith Harris wrote:
On Saturday, 3 August 2019 16:00:56 UTC+1, Alastair B. McDonald
wrote:
On Saturday, 3 August 2019 14:37:56 UTC+1, newshound wrote:
On 03/08/2019 11:49, Graham P Davis wrote:
On 03/08/2019 11:03, Spike wrote:
This is the full version, HTH:

https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

Ah, a media story. My personal experience with these is that
they often bear little relationship to what the interviewee
actually said. Fifty years ago I was incensed on seeing an
article in the Daily Fail about an impending "Little Ice Age"
which was a load of ******** from beginning to end. I'd
worked with the interviewees and could not believe what
they'd said. When I got to work I was going to ring them but,
considering they were a few grades above me, I delayed a bit.
However, one rang me first to apologise about the article,
saying it was nonsense, and that none of the quotes
attributed to them were what they'd said.

A few years ago, I was speaking to someone who'd also fallen
foul of such misreporting and so, on his next interview,
asked the interviewers whether they minded whether he
recorded it. They agreed. Of course, when the story appeared,
he'd been totally misquoted. He got another meeting with them
and went over the recording.They found all the words on the
recording that had appeared in the quotes but none of the
phrases or sentences. They had resorted, in effect, to the
Eric Morecambe defence where they'd used the right words but
not necessarily in the right order!


I don't doubt that there is some selective quotation here, but
I am pretty confident that the basic theme of the UN prediction
was that there would be problems if something wasn't done.
People being human, they might well have sexed it up a bit, and
of course journalists write it up for the most dramatic spin,
that is what journalists do.

Like Graham, I have had the unsettling experience of seeing
highly selective quotation from nuclear power professionals
turned into a series of dire warnings.

Skipping back to when I was passionate and impressionable, I
worried about the now-classic Paul Ehrlich quote from 1968:

"The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s
hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of
any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing
can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate".
Which of course didn't happen.

I also believed the 1960's prediction that oil was going to run
out in the 1890's.

Well, oil may not have run out in the 1890's or even the 1980's
but the day when it does run out is getting ever closer.

The same applies to countries being wiped off the face of the
planet by rising sea levels. It has not happened yet but it is
now inevitable. We are not able now to stop Greenland continuing
to melt, and it will add 7m to sea level. Bye bye Bangladesh,
Holland and Florida. Your UN spokes man did not say that the
flooding would occur in 2000, only that if nothing was done then
it would be impossible to stop it. That is what is happening now.
See:

New Study Finds Sea Level Rise Accelerating

Global sea level rise has been accelerating in recent decades,
rather than increasing steadily, according to a new study based
on 25 years of NASA and European satellite data.

@
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard...finds-sea-leve
l-rise-accelerating

Alistair I find myself banging my head against a brick wall with
some of these denial'ers. Problem is most of them a running the
World, so there's little hope for the human race.

Keith (Southend)

Oh well there goes another record

https://twitter.com/LanderVanTricht/...626112/photo/1

In fact the maximum was probably higher as we only see hourly
readings, no climate data (333) AAXX 02184 04416 46/// /1204 10047
20039 36951 57006= But here it is +4.7°C, where is all this melt
going to go?

Of course some will still be in denial!

Keith (Southend)

For my money this all makes Brexit seem like an irrelevant side-show.
But then, what do I know ?!

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