Quark Soup by David Appell: Molina on Feeling Global Warming

“It’s important that people are doing more than just hearing about global warming. People may be feeling it, experiencing the impact on food prices, getting a glimpse of what everyday life may be like in the future, unless we as a society take action.”

-- Mario Molina, keynote address, last week's American Chemical Society meeting, Philadephia, PA

Demand for awareness prompts booth hire - Fiji Times Online

"Adverse impacts of climate change such as more rainfall leading to frequent flooding, sea-water inundation of villages; cultural sites, salt water intrusion of fresh water and increase in pests and diseases for crops and increase in diseases such as diarrhoea and typhoid are no longer myths in most of our communities," Ms Mataikabara said.

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[Nullius in Verba comment] But I don’t want the journalist doing the research and just telling me the answer, because I don’t get any real understanding or assurance from that. I want the research doing for me, but I will form my own opinions based on the collated evidence. I don’t want a journalist who takes sides, or presents only the evidence in support of their favoured position (or even mine). I want to know what the best arguments are on all sides so I can decide for myself.

Some journalists are pretty bad at that – regurgitating press releases and advocacy, asserting their own personal opinion without any balanced look at the arguments. But the ideal of the impartial journalist giving the reader all sides of the debate is still there.

Drought’s been good for highway builders | The Columbus Dispatch

Without usual weather delays, some central Ohio road projects are completed ahead of schedule