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To: ApplegateRanch
Mwhat percentage of the Great Teeming Masses (or journalists either, for that matter) realize just HOW insignificant (if indeed really measureable in a dynamic system called 'Ocean') this amount is?

Almost none of them. They focus on the plus or minus of what's being described, even though it is swamped by variations due to warming and expansion of the water by the sun and by underwater volcanoes.
68 posted on 12/16/2008 10:30:39 PM PST by aruanan
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To: aruanan

“Almost none of them. They focus on the plus or minus of what’s being described, even though it is swamped by variations due to warming and expansion of the water by the sun and by underwater volcanoes.”

The other fallacy that’s committed so often it’s never remarked on anymore, is the constant use of local conditions to reinforce some idea about global conditions. You just can’t do that, and our side is equally guilty when we focus on one small area of extreme weather (Southern California just got buried under 63 feet of snow! heh). It’s fine to mention extreme weather, just don’t draw unsubstantiated sweeping global conclusions as do these news articles.

As has been pointed out, there is complete lack of balance in stories in the other direction, as in the numerous local low temperature records that’ve been broken this year, or the massive recovery in arctic ice extent.


69 posted on 12/17/2008 3:41:49 AM PST by PreciousLiberty
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