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Time to connect the dots

In our example, the speaker asks people to recognize the link between extreme weather we see locally and global warming that’s happening to the Earth as a whole.

Not all people agree that there is a link between the two of course. Heavy carbon-emitting polluters, for example, such as big oil companies, refuse to acknowledge any connection between the two, and understandably so. They want to keep polluting the earth while letting everyone else share its consequences. That’s why they are in denial of climate change as caused by human activities.

Let’s remain focused, though, on connecting the dots the term itself. Let’s read a few media examples:

1. After emerging from a nearly two hour meeting in the Situation Room with his national security team, President Obama today said that while the information was there to disrupt the attempted Christmas Day attack, the intelligence community failed to connect the dots in a “potentially disastrous way.”

“The U.S. government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot and potentially disrupt the Christmas Day attack, but our intelligence community failed to connect those dots, which would have placed the suspect on the no-fly list,” Obama said from the Grand Foyer this afternoon, “In other words, this was not a failure to collect intelligence, it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had. The information was there, agencies and analysts who needed it had access to it, and our professionals were trained to look for it and to bring it all together.”