Scientific American pulls an Obama
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A news update in the July 2008 print edition of
The Antarctic ozone hole that forms every spring has kept that continent’s interior cold even as the rest of the world has warmed over the past few decades. Thanks to the global ban on chlorofluorocarbons, stratospheric ozone levels there are slowly recovering. A repaired hole, however, could speed Antarctic ice melting and change weather patterns, according to a computer model by Judith Perlwitz of the University of Colorado at Boulder and her colleagues. With more ozone, the lower stratosphere would absorb more ultraviolet light and warm up by as much as nine degrees Celsius.
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Unfortunately, before I had the chance to spray paint my undying love for Jon Bon Jovi on the town’s water tank, the SciAm website attempted a return to AGW orthodoxy with the amended article, “Mending Ozone Hole May Benefit Climate Change,” complete with the apology:
*Erratum (6/16/08): We regret the misunderstanding created by the original headline and wording of this article, which stated that mending the ozone layer could speed climate change.
Despite the supposed correction, if you follow the link, you will see that the first half of the new article indicates that mending the ozone hole will make Antarctica cooler. Then, halfway through, with no transition to indicate contrast, the text reverts to the Perlwitz data.
I suppose that if Barack Obama can try to be on two sides of an issue at the same time, so can the
Where do you get your science news now? Just as you commented about your 20% comprehension, my reading level is below many of the SciAm articles, but I need that challenge. I could do without the constant AGW, "God and science are incompatible", and "politics should stay out of science but Bush doesn't give us enough money" drivel.
I used to love Scientific American, now they are little more than the technology wing of the democratic party.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
Nonsense like that is the reason I cancelled my subscription years ago. What used to be a great magazine which challenged my thinking (heck, I could only understand about 20%) turned into a social engineering platform. They began to present their socialist, environmentalist stories more and more as reasoned science without presenting any contrasting views. At one point, they published an editorial explaining that they had to publish this type of rubbish as their moral responsibility. The drumbeat of their anti-corporate, anti-American message just drowned out the intersting science. So sad.
Thanks for the post - and recommended.