Scientific Jargon – "Would" "Will" "Could" "Might" "Maybe"
Guest post by Steven Goddard http://gothamist.com/attachments/jake/2006_1_bigwave1.jpg The BBC has perfected the use of weasel words to create alarm. They have a lead story today : The collapse of a major polar ice sheet will not raise global sea levels as much as previous projections suggest, a team of scientists has calculated. Writing in Science, the…