“The more I get into this, the more I find two classes of doom-sayers, with, of course, the silent majority in between,” he wrote. “One group says we will turn into snow-tripping mastodons because of the atmospheric dust and the other says we will have to grow gills to survive the increased ocean level due to the temperature rise.” – Hubert Heffner, deputy director of the administration’s Office of Science and Technology under Nixon, 1970.
JA also thinks that Fred Pearce is rubbish.
And while I’m on rubbish journo’s (are there any other sort? Yes of course: JF!): as I said before, Monbiot is rubbish. Here he presents his snivelling excuses for hainvg called for Jones to resign. And they really are snivelling: So was I wrong to call, soon after this story broke, for Jones’s resignation? I think, on balance, that I was. He said some very stupid things. At times he squelched the scientific principles of transparency and openness. He might have broken the law. But he was also provoked beyond endurance. I think, in the light of everything I’ve now seen and read, that if I were to write that article again I’d conclude that Phil Jones should hang on – but only just. So, having fallen for the septic junk and done his own little bit towards poisoning the debate, Monbiot can’t even bring himself to apologise. What a skunk.
[Update: JA has done this soooo much better than me :-).]
The Krypton Cataclysm: Why So Few Survivors? asks mt.
Thought: just as nothing Buddy Holly did was as good as American Pie, so none of the old 40′s movies are as good as The Friends of Mr Cairo.