Being Adequately Informed Is A Democratic Duty,

The Clock, For All Its Precision In Measurement, Is A Blunt Instrument For The Psyche And For Society. Schedules Can Replace Sensitivity To The Mood Of A Moment, Clock Time Can Ride Roughshod Over The Emotions Of Individuals.

Clearly, Many Branches Of Science Need An Exquisite Precision Of Timekeeping And The Infinitesimal Decimals Of Calibration, So Space Launches, For Example, Are Not Scheduled For Leap-second Dates. But Society As A Whole Neither Needs That Obsessive Time Measurement Nor Is Well Served By It.

I'm Not Against Entertainment: If Someone Wants To Read Nonsense-mongers, Let Them, But I Resent The Appearance Of Parity Between Two Articles On An Issue As Serious As Climate Change When One Article Is Actually Gibberish Masked In Pseudoscience And The Other Is Well Informed And Accurate.

Society Understands The Architecture Of Academia And Knows There Are Relevant Qualifications In Different Fields, And The Media Accepts The Idea Of Specialisations And Accords Greater Respect To Those With Greater Expertise. With One Exception: Climate Science.

We Are Animal In Our Blood And In Our Skin. We Were Not Born For Pavements And Escalators But For Thunder And Mud.