Remember when Wired, and its associated websites, were about technology and science? I do.
I stopped subscribing to the paper magazine a couple years ago — even though it’s only something like $8 a year — when I realized that I didn’t even bother to read it, most months.
I still have the Wired website in my feed reader, but that might be soon to go, too, because of garbage like this article.
Rising Heat Threatens World Food Supplies
The hottest seasons of the 20th century will be typical weather by 2100 — and scientists think that without agricultural adaptations to extreme heat, mass food shortages could follow.
Note it doesn’t say, in the headline, ‘rising heat could threaten world food supplies’. The first paragraph doesn’t say ‘If the hottest seasons of the 20th century are typical weather by 2100′. Nope. It’s a settled matter for Wired ‘Science’ that this will be. The article, or blog post, or whatever the hell this thing is is even accompanied by a little map showing the ‘likelihood (in percent) that future summer average temperatures will exceed the highest summer temperatures observed on record’. About half of the globe is colored red, for ’100%’. Science, ladies and gentleman!
The article ends:
The fates of these ['developing'] countries are uncertain — unlike, said Naylor, the changing climate.
“With the temperature projections, there’s no disputing where we’re heading,” she said. “We have to face reality.”
So why should I trust anything they have to say at Wired? Even the BBC appends ‘a new report by US scientists warns’ to the claim in their story.
