{"id":337606,"date":"2024-07-26T09:41:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=337606"},"modified":"2024-07-26T09:41:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:41:20","slug":"university-of-reading-advertise-for-climate-storyteller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=337606","title":{"rendered":"University of Reading Advertise For Climate\u00a0Storyteller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s little wonder that people don\u2019t trust climate scientists!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now Ed Hawkins wants to employ someone to \u201cdevelop storylines\u201d about extreme weather!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If weather really was getting more extreme, it would be easy to prove using actual data, instead of having to make up stories based on opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it is actually worse than the advert implies. This is what Ed Hawkins\u2019 paper on the topic last year, as linked , actually says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPlausible storylines\u201d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the Merriam-Webster definition of \u201cplausible\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Often deceptively so!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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