It is all in the words

The whole Climate Change argument/issue (oh yes, I will, I will) will have to wait for a later post, but what I want to point out the words issue.

This is where the parameters of the discussion are spun to get across an opinion or viewpoint. In this case there was a recent news story on the BBC about the Copenhagen climate summit.

They did a short piece on the "climate sceptics" on the one hand, which is good, because there is still an alternative viewpoint recognised and not in terms of a "bonkers fringe". However, having done that they returned to the main conference with the line "most scientists don't dispute the evidence". This is disingeneous to the limit.

The fact is that climate sceptics don't dispute the evidence as such, what they dispute is the interpretation, the cause and effect, the basis of where the evidence sits alongside other evidence, and whether the evidence has been tampered with. Lots of things really.

But, by suggesting that climate sceptics only dispute the evidence, suggests that they are clearly wrong - because we all know that evidence is what proves things, right.

It's a cheap and shoddy trick, but all too effective.