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Weird quotes from the article: > In this case, there are 86 lead authors from 39 countries, of which 39% are female. > These researchers, who are unpaid, have

Weird quotes from the article: > In this case, there are 86 lead authors from 39 countries, of which 39% are female. > These researchers, who are unpaid, have reviewed the available scientific literature on the feasibility, impacts and costs of staying under 1.5C. > "If one can imagine the governments holding the hands of the scientists, this means you don't know how science works!"

antientropic 8y ago
What is weird about them?
- glenra 8y ago
  The entire article reads like a blog post. It obviously wasn't written by a news writer or edited by a news editor - there are grammar issues and tonal issues and sourcing issues. Does the BBC now have something like the Fortune "Contributor's Network" - a group of random bloggers who get to write under their domain as if they were BBC writers, weakening the brand but bringing in more click revenue? That'd be my guess as to what's happening here. Regarding just the first sentence example: > In this case, there are 86 lead authors from 39 countries, of which 39% are female. The sentence structure suggests it's the countries rather than the authors who are female. The clause is misplaced and "of which" applies to things not people ("of whom" would have been better). Basically the writer wanted to cram in a bit of extra information, couldn't figure out where or how to do so gracefully and grammatically, yet stuck it in anyway.
  - growlist 8y ago
    Blame falling standards in UK education, and the fact that bright kids don't go into the media any more. A 2:2 in media studies from an ex-poly and this is what you get.
  - marmaduke 8y ago
    > The sentence structure suggests it's the countries rather than the authors who are female. aggressive ungracious reading is borderline trolling
marmaduke 8y ago
I found them prescient > In this case, there are 86 lead authors from 39 countries, of which 39% are female. speaks to diversity, e.g. it's not just a bunch of white men from a thinktank in south Florida (born there, nothing against it) > These researchers, who are unpaid, have reviewed the available scientific literature on the feasibility, impacts and costs of staying under 1.5C. unpaid suggest impartiality and dedication, the rest specifies the scope of their work nicely, as opposed to very unspecificed term "climate change" > "If one can imagine the governments holding the hands of the scientists, this means you don't know how science works!" this is over the top but the point would be it's not a bunch of lobbyists writing the report on the behalf of politicians

antientropic 8y ago

What is weird about them?

glenra 8y ago
The entire article reads like a blog post. It obviously wasn't written by a news writer or edited by a news editor - there are grammar issues and tonal issues and sourcing issues. Does the BBC now have something like the Fortune "Contributor's Network" - a group of random bloggers who get to write under their domain as if they were BBC writers, weakening the brand but bringing in more click revenue? That'd be my guess as to what's happening here. Regarding just the first sentence example: > In this case, there are 86 lead authors from 39 countries, of which 39% are female. The sentence structure suggests it's the countries rather than the authors who are female. The clause is misplaced and "of which" applies to things not people ("of whom" would have been better). Basically the writer wanted to cram in a bit of extra information, couldn't figure out where or how to do so gracefully and grammatically, yet stuck it in anyway.
- growlist 8y ago
  Blame falling standards in UK education, and the fact that bright kids don't go into the media any more. A 2:2 in media studies from an ex-poly and this is what you get.
- marmaduke 8y ago
  > The sentence structure suggests it's the countries rather than the authors who are female. aggressive ungracious reading is borderline trolling

marmaduke 8y ago

I found them prescient > In this case, there are 86 lead authors from 39 countries, of which 39% are female. speaks to diversity, e.g. it's not just a bunch of white men from a thinktank in south Florida (born there, nothing against it) > These researchers, who are unpaid, have reviewed the available scientific literature on the feasibility, impacts and costs of staying under 1.5C. unpaid suggest impartiality and dedication, the rest specifies the scope of their work nicely, as opposed to very unspecificed term "climate change" > "If one can imagine the governments holding the hands of the scientists, this means you don't know how science works!" this is over the top but the point would be it's not a bunch of lobbyists writing the report on the behalf of politicians