Monday, June 4, 2012

Climateer Line of the Day: Journalism Edition

Today's winner of the prestigious CLoD is the Wall Street Journal's Matt Phillips:
The clamor for more historical context on the current record low for U.S. interest rates has hit a fever pitch!
-from "U.S. Borrowing Costs: 1941-Present"

Attentive (and possibly deranged) readers will note the stylistic similarity to the work of an earlier award winner:
Dead zones are all the rage! Here's my latest dead zone story.
That's all I do now: I've got the dead zone beat....
-the Washington Post's Joel Achenbach  reprised in our "Risk: "Under the world's greatest cities, deadly plates" post.