Name The Decade - Monday
May 5th, 2008 by Wiley CodyEach of the following quotes is taken from a popular news source. Some were published in the decade between 1970 and 1979, while others are more contemporary ranging from 2000 to present. This is quiz number two. See if you can identify which decade gave birth to what rhetoric:
____ “To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advancd signs of fundamental changes in the world’s weather.”
____ “Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects.”
____ “The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.”
____ “Some observers have tried to connect the eleven-year sunspot cycle with climate patterns, but have so far been unable to provide a satisfactory explanation of how the cycle might be involved.”
____ “Whereas ocean and land surfaces reflect 5-25 per cent of the incident solar energy back into space, snow and ice reflect 80 per cent of solar energy back into space.”
____ “We can also think about the problem from the points of view of the safety engineer and the politician. To each of these the probabilities and the costly demonstration of natural forces in the last three years offers a significant threat.”
____ “It is based on the conjunction of several natural phenomena. The phenomena will occur. The expected consequences may not, but there is strong circumstantial evidence that suggests it is more likely they may.”
____ “The cod off the Cape aren’t coming as close to the land as they used to, says Joseph C. Allen, who has been covering fishing for The Vineyard Gazette for 50 years, and the fishermen believe that the reason si the unusually warm winter water.”
____ “Interest and concern in such events has thrust climatologists into the limelight and brought forth a number of popular books dealing with the general topic of climate change.”
