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RE: National Geographic on Global Warming
Richard Hess wrote:
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Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 10:46 AM
To: bobcherry@cox.net; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: National Geographic on Global Warming
At 12:06 PM 12/27/2004 -0500, bobcherry@cox.net wrote in the thread
George Will on Global Warming:
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20998-2004Dec22.html
I need to counter with the National Geographic recent issue on the same
subject. It's gotten to the point I don't know who's cooking what data.
Yes, I've read the "Skeptical Environmentalist" but that was several
years
ago, National Geographic is now.
Is National Geographic a political or scientific journal. Their original
charter seems like they were a scientific organization, but I don't know
about their goals and directions today.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0409/feature1/
Cheers,
Richard
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National Geographic has always been a sort of quasi-scientific
organization, serving primarily as a funder for geographic and
scientific expeditions and a disburser of the results of those
expeditions.
Similarly, they have always had a political point of view. You can see
this if you buy the full run of the magazine (which you can get on about
a dozen CDs for a song) or, to a lesser extent, all of the maps
(similarly available for a dance on several CDs). Read some articles
from the 20s, 30s, or 40s and you see clear influence of the politics of
the day -- tending toward the liberal side of the politics of the day,
but only tending so.
Best regards.
Jim Dukelow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA
jim.dukelow@pnl.gov
These comments are mine and have not been reviewed and/or approved by my
management or by the U.S. Department of Energy/
Do what you can with what you have in the time you have in the place you
are.
Nkosi Johnson
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