On Sunday, the Washington Post ran an opinion piece on climate change by Joel Achenbach, a Post reporter and fellow washingtonpost.com blogger. While he made several good points about the perils of attributing individual extreme weather events to long-term climate change, Achenbach unfortunately left the mistaken impression that somehow climate and weather are two distinct realms. In fact, they are intricately related. "Somewhere along the line, global warming became the explanation for everything," Achenbach wrote, lamenting that this has taken attention away from other more certain (in his view) environmental problems. This is not a novel criticism, by the way, since it's been aired by everyone from Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg on down to my barber. Achenbach decries the sensationalist media coverage that climate change...
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