Comments on: Crap environmental reporting http://conservationbytes.com/2009/11/13/crap-environmental-reporting/ Conservation research... with bite Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:58:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: How many species are there? « ConservationBytes.com http://conservationbytes.com/2009/11/13/crap-environmental-reporting/#comment-3784 How many species are there? « ConservationBytes.com Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:46:55 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=3109#comment-3784 [...] whinge about crap reporting aside, this is what Hamilton and colleagues [...] [...] whinge about crap reporting aside, this is what Hamilton and colleagues [...]

]]> By: insectamonarca http://conservationbytes.com/2009/11/13/crap-environmental-reporting/#comment-3034 insectamonarca Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:03:06 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=3109#comment-3034 Dear CJA, Your writing is a must for us lay people who want to help with biodiversity. Happy Tonics has a Monarch Butterfly Habitat in Shell Lake, Wisconsin. It amazes me that many people do not realize the butterfly is in crisis. I get asked, "Where are all the butterflies?" When it comes to climate change and drought and the poor monarch, the host plant milkweed didn't even flower this past summer. The cold and rains held the migration back and climate change is now affecting the infestation of pine beetles in the Mexican Monarch Butterfly Habitat. People need to know and you have the ability to turn science into language that some of us can grasp even if not in its totality. Sorry that the journalist wasn't up to the task. I find most of the public isn't either. But we must try to get through for our four legged and winged relatives! Best wishes. Dear CJA, Your writing is a must for us lay people who want to help with biodiversity. Happy Tonics has a Monarch Butterfly Habitat in Shell Lake, Wisconsin. It amazes me that many people do not realize the butterfly is in crisis. I get asked, “Where are all the butterflies?” When it comes to climate change and drought and the poor monarch, the host plant milkweed didn’t even flower this past summer. The cold and rains held the migration back and climate change is now affecting the infestation of pine beetles in the Mexican Monarch Butterfly Habitat.

People need to know and you have the ability to turn science into language that some of us can grasp even if not in its totality.

Sorry that the journalist wasn’t up to the task. I find most of the public isn’t either. But we must try to get through for our four legged and winged relatives!

Best wishes.

]]> By: Geoff Russell http://conservationbytes.com/2009/11/13/crap-environmental-reporting/#comment-3031 Geoff Russell Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:36:38 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=3109#comment-3031 You are right to be angry with error 2, annoyed with errors 3 and 4 but the first is a subtle semantic issue that non-experts can't be expected to handle. What is the difference between a) being extinct b) facing extinction c) being threatened with extinction d) "could be threatened" with extinction? a) is clear, the rest are tricky, in particular the last. Does this mean "aren't now" but might be in the future, or "may be" but we haven't the data to know. You are right to be angry with error 2, annoyed with errors 3 and 4 but
the first is a subtle semantic issue that non-experts can’t be expected
to handle. What is the difference between a) being extinct b) facing
extinction c) being threatened with extinction d) “could be threatened”
with extinction? a) is clear, the rest are tricky, in particular the last.
Does this mean “aren’t now” but might be in the future, or “may be” but
we haven’t the data to know.

]]> By: Barry Brook http://conservationbytes.com/2009/11/13/crap-environmental-reporting/#comment-3019 Barry Brook Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:22:00 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=3109#comment-3019 Reminds me of the time a 'journalist' reported my description of the ozone hole increasing the speed of the Antarctic circumpolar winds, and this is one reason (along with increased precipitation) why the continent wasn't warming as fast as we might otherwise expect. It was reported as me saying that the ozone hold 'let the hot air out'. FFS. Reminds me of the time a ‘journalist’ reported my description of the ozone hole increasing the speed of the Antarctic circumpolar winds, and this is one reason (along with increased precipitation) why the continent wasn’t warming as fast as we might otherwise expect.

It was reported as me saying that the ozone hold ‘let the hot air out’.

FFS.

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