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Posted in EU Info on 10/06/2010 11:23 pm by admin
EU official says earthquakes in Chile and Haiti are proof of global warming – acceptable behaviour?
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I’m guessing that most of you outside Europe won’t have heard of Piotr Kaczyński (no relation to Ted Kaczyński that i know of!) but he’s a senior analyst with the Centre for European Policy Studies – a research arm of the European Union government which advises it on policy issues and helps to shape EU Government agendas
Anyway, in a recent twitter feed http://twitter.com/pm_kaczynski/status/9800795505 Mr Kaczyński makes this riposte to global warming sceptics:
“”Haiti, Chile- earthquakes. ‘A perfect storm’ in Western Europe. Iceberg is off Antarctica- first two months of 2010. So, no climate change?”"
~ Now, anyone can make a silly comment on Twitter, but when that person is an advisor to a international governmental body, is this kind of ill-informed and partisan comment worrying?
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Info on CEPS and Piotr Kaczyński http://www.piotr.tk/ and http://www.ceps.be/content/about-ceps
Typical clueless comment from a deceived alarmist politician. Acceptable? Consider the source, then ignore as required.
This is a perfect example of the logical fallacy misplaced authority, and using his position in society as a bully pulpit.
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