On Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 3:15:45 AM UTC+12, Alastair B. McDonald wrote:
On Monday, 5 August 2019 15:27:25 UTC+1, Spike wrote:
On 05/08/2019 15:29, Graham P Davis wrote:
On 05/08/2019 10:16, Spike wrote:

The interesting thing about the AP article is that much of what was said
was in the form of quotes rather than words that had been jiggled about.

As I pointed out in the two examples I gave, quotes can often bear
little or no relationship to what was actually said. I've also seen
articles based on press statements that have been so mangled that they
also bear no relevance to the original statement.

But, on the other hand, no specific reason has been advanced to doubt
the provenance of the information in that particular AP article.


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Spike

That article was correct. It is backed up in a book both I and Graham have read, "Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change", by Nathaniel Rich, 20119. If we had taken action in 1980 and 1990 we could have prevented the disasters that have only just begun, with record temperatures, floods, and wildfire spreading throughout the world, not to mention the immigration crises affecting both Europe and the USA, and sea level rise accelerating.

Just so. Meanwhile those with bad motives continue to try and confuse the issues in a criminally irresponsible way.