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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/02/2013 02:10, spike wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know a more appalling example than
a new anchor asking if meteors are a result of global warming:</p>
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To be honest, given the range of things blamed on climate change it
might not be too unreasonable. Just look at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm">http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm</a> - a lot of the sources are
*really* bad, but that will be hard to tell for most people. Even
when you actually go for peer reviewed publications you get plenty
of apparent contradictions (
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/03/the-big-self-parodying-climate-change-blame-list/">http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/03/the-big-self-parodying-climate-change-blame-list/</a>
), and most input people get is the far more crazy and extreme
popular media. Which are manned by journalists who get their
world-view from media. <br>
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Hmm, maybe I should bring this up when I am on radio about the NEO
tomorrow evening. <br>
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In fact, given that higher solar activity can expand the atmosphere
and cause satellites to spiral in, maybe a hotter atmosphere will be
able to catch a few extra NEOs? (No, I don't think the effect
matters)<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford University </pre>
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