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Saw a very interesting episode of Scientific
American Frontiers on PBS tonight. The subject was the effects of global warming
on the geography, flora, and fauna of Alaska.
I noted that all the scientists (with a couple of
exceptions that I'll explain next) used SI while the narration done by Alan Alda
used IFP. The lone exceptions among the scientists was actually an engineer for
the US Army Corps of Engineers and a scientist who was reshooting terrain
originally photographed in the 40's to analyze how much the vegetation had
changed. He had a reasonable excuse for doing so because he was following the
original flight path of the plane in which the original photographer worked and
that path was laid out in ifp, of course.
Still, at this stage it seems odd for Scientific
American Frontiers to be filling their shows with SI from the scientists they
interview and then use ifp only in the narration. Guess it's time for me to
write the producers and see how they respond.
Ezra
P.S. I also learned that if the Arctic warms up
another 3-5 degrees Celsius (as the latest computer models now predict) we'll
lose the permafrost and release as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as we
currently have already, i.e. we'll double the percent of CO2.
Yikes!
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