Monday, September 19, 2005
Worst Science Reporting Ever
In the sky is falling category:
But that's OK, we have a public to alarm....
A silent tectonic event, so powerful it has shifted southern Vancouver Island out to sea, but so subtle nobody has felt a thing, is slowly unfolding on the West Coast....On condition on anonimity I have spoken to a contact at the earthquake monitoring offices of the USGS -- you know the people responsible for tracking such things in the US. It has been reported to me that this is likely a problem in the GPS (global positioning system) equipment they use to track earth movements.
..."Southern Vancouver Island [Canada] is sort of sliding towards the west right now. We're moving towards Japan," said John Cassidy, a seismologist with Natural Resource Canada at the Pacific Geoscience Centre near Sidney, B.C. "It's a very small amount. We've moved about three millimetres to the west over the past couple of days."
But that's OK, we have a public to alarm....
