Yes, I understand that Scientific articles are not written in easy to understand terms or concepts, they are speaking to a narrow audience, they are not intended for the general public. The public is easy to mislead when simple plain language is used. The simple language to explain what they are doing is called "lying". One group wants to inform and the other mislead and confuse with simple explanations. Explanations like humans are too insignificant to influence the environment when examples abound in their influence. For example, burning fossil fuels would have less impact if humans had not destroyed natural carbon sinks like forests and grasslands. Now we are further destroying forests to extract oil that uses as much energy as it produces.
The point is the people attacking science have big budgets that are often subsidized by tax payers and certainly have PAC's to influence law makers. Science is under attack and it is contrary to the public interests.
I don't think we are in disagreement. The graph  misrepresented the facts, but the lay public isn't going to fact check . It's published ergo it's true. The point I was trying to make is the graph is attractive and simple, easily understood . Accuracy is beside the point. The actual science article wasn't. The public is more attuned to sound bites, not really thinking things through. The graph was simple and easily understood.Â
It's always been the same, it takes 5 seconds for someone to make a claim and 5 minutes to explain why the claim is wrong. Who is going to hang around for the full five minutes? Whoa, look at that bright object in the sky, must be a UFO! Well, no, it's really something easily explainable - in five minutes.Â
You're singing to the choir on this one. I was long ago convinced about global warming.  _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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