NP With Relation to Orwell's Ministry of Truth

[Otto]

Do the spinners have done so or haven't scientists indeed changed their point of view that it cannot be taken for sure that "global warming" is taking place as predicted in the seventies? Is the "complexity of the Earth system" really a gobbledygook or a more scientific description of what is going on, something that maybe never will be understood in full because the weather/climate is a much more chaotic system than we ever assumed?

Is there a monopoly of truth on the side of the critics?

"The bigger question is existential: do the gods punish hubris?"

What a silly question. What, and this much more likely, if there are no gods, if God is just a human concept?

Otto

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tim Strzechowski 
  To: Pynchon-L 
  Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 8:25 PM
  Subject: NP With Relation to Orwell's Ministry of Truth


  [ ... ] "This is the most arrogant administration in memory. Every day brings another issue where a careful observer of the political scene cannot believe what's happening. The latest outrage has the White House spinmeisters editing a report by the EPA on the status of the environment to omit mounting concern about climate change. The spinners have already stricken the phrase "global warming" in favor of the more benign "climate change." The offending line declared, "Climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment." In its place, the White House inserted a bunch of gobbledygook about how the "complexity of the Earth system" and various "interconnections" make it a challenge to render scientific judgments." [...]


  read it all @
  http://www.msnbc.com/news/929206.asp

          


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