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A "Huh?" for Wired News
Wired News‘s top science story of 2005 is global warming. Fair enough, but the first sentence of their paragraph describing it brought me up short:
“1. It’s getting hot in here: Thanks to the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, global warming can no longer be ignored.”
The linking of global warming to Katrina is just possibly defensible, although barely. But what on Earth does the tsunami have to do with it? Surely Wired isn’t suggesting that global warming is the cause of massive undersea earthquakes.
Sloppy writing.
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