Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air?

oldwindways writes "The BBC reports that leading climate researchers are concerned that the tone of speculation surrounding many reports (scientific as well as in the media) could be making it more difficult for legitimate science to make a case for the future. Is Hollywood to blame? Have we 'cried wolf' too many times with global warming? Or is this just a case of some researchers who are not ready to face the truth? Either way, it raises the interesting question of how greater public awareness of Global Warming might be affecting the course of research and vice versa. Not to mention what happens when public awareness is shaped by factors other than scientific findings. This is especially troubling during what some are calling the warmest US winter in years."

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HA

[Kryptonian Jor-El]

Global Warming?? I live in Maryland and we just got the heaviest snowfall of the winter, midway thru MARCH.

Speaking of Hot Air

[sycodon]

The U.S. had a normal winter.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2007/ feb/feb07.html

This is the kind of loose cannon crap that they are talking about.

"Before this century is over, billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic," predicted James Lovelock, a renowned environmental scientist.

That is the kind of overblown, the world is ending crap they are talking about.