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Climate Change: It's Only Human To Exaggerate, But Science Itself Does Not
2014-10-19 07:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science 2.0: To exaggerate is human, and scientists are human. Exaggeration and the complementary art of simplification are the basic rhetorical tools of human intercourse. So yes, scientists do exaggerate. So do politicians, perhaps even when, as the UKs former environment secretary Owen Paterson did, they claim that climate change forecasts are widely exaggerated. A more pertinent question is: does the way in which scientists and politicians speak publicly lead to wild exaggeration? When both are engaged...
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