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Silent Summer
There is ample evidence of growing climate disruption. But despite record or near-record
heat and drought in the United States this past summer with simultaneous extreme flooding, and
despite comparable extremes in China and elsewhere, there has been little public discussion of
the connection of these climate extremes with human-made climate forcing.
The media are partly responsible for the silent summer, as they have mainly chosen not to
examine connections between climate anomalies and human-made causes. A cynic may ask
whether their silent summer is related to increasing right-wing control of media and large
advertising revenues from fossil fuel companies. Regardless of reasons for media silence, should
scientists be making more effort to draw public attention to the human role in climate anomalies?
Scientists face one long-standing obstacle to public communication and one new factor.
The old difficulty arises from limits on our ability to detect expected change in a chaotic climate
system, especially concerning the significance of specific regional events. The new factor is the
likelihood of being pilloried for reporting evidence of a human role in climate change.

JavaScriptDonkey wrote:Hansen will always find evidence to support his position because he has belief. He has left objective science far behind.