Climate change exhibit Atmosphere may be pretty but it lacks punch | Alice Bell | Science | guardian.co.uk

The framing of the gallery might be one of debate, but the museum still seems to be set on feeding information to its audiences.

Because there is so much on offer and it's hard to concentrate on the gallery floor, you can have short, text-based articles emailed to yourself from the gallery to read later. However, the "donotreply" email address says something about how far the museum is prepared to discuss its content.

Providing information in this way is, in itself, not necessarily a bad thing. Maybe we ask too many questions of climate science rather than taking time to listen.

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Holly said preliminary findings indicate that extremely cold weather caused the refinery’s steam-producing boilers to shut down, according to a company statement.

Krauthammer wonders at the delusions of the media « Hot Air

And that’s why those metaphors get used by politicians across the spectrum as well as journalists: because people understand them as metaphors. No one thought Manchin would haul out a rifle on the floor of the Senate and drill a hole through a bill he opposed. Similarly, no one thinks that an “air war” in the context of a political campaign means that one candidate will get in a plane and drop incendiary bombs on hostile precincts. That term refers to TV and radio advertising. If anyone thought for a moment that Barack Obama really meant that he’d get guns out to settle political debates or that Sarah Palin really wanted people to reload guns for the same purpose, neither could get elected dogcatcher in any jurisdiction in the US.