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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Sign of the Apocalypse

(Fox News) - Experts at Britain’s top climate research center are attacking scientists and journalists for what they are calling misleading "apocalyptic predictions" about arctic ice melt and warming temperatures. The Guardian newspaper reports officials at the Met Office Hadley Center say such gloom and doom pronouncements are confusing and inaccurate.

The center's head of climate change advice says “Having to rein in extraordinary claims that the latest extreme [event] is all due to climate change is at best hugely frustrating and at worse enormously distracting."

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