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kevinpet 2 hours ago

Editorials are a thing. This is not an editorial. It's structured as a news report.

zdragnar an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This is The Register we're talking about. Of course it is heavily editorialized, that's half their schtick.

hunterpayne 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Credibility is a thing. Articles like this burn it quite quickly. It really is past time that the scientific community needs to make a public statement rejecting these types of "journalists".

coldtea an hour ago | parent [-]

The scientific community has burned a lot of credibility itself to make any kind of statement to that effect.

hunterpayne 38 minutes ago | parent [-]

That's the thing, the popular impression is that this is the case. But if you read what scientists actually wrote/said you would realize that what science says and what activists and journalists claim science says are quite different. That's why its almost impossible for a journalist to get a quote from a scientists on this topic anymore. Its also why there are almost no scientists who are members of "green" political entities (eg Sierra Club) anymore. Did you see a quote from a scientist in this article? When was the last time you saw one?

defrost 26 minutes ago | parent [-]

> Did you see a quote from a scientist in this article?

The article cited the latest figures from Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO).

There's little need here for Niels Bohr or a bleeding edge virologist to lean in on annual summary stats on civil infrastructure usage.

hunterpayne 2 minutes ago | parent [-]

Those are not scientists. They also compute GDP.