Further to this post, a reader has sent us an ingenious example of a novel linguistic construction that attempts to escape the constraints of the English language in order to give the impression that tentative predictions of the future are happening now: "The fact is...
Future-Present Imperfect Imperative
The English language is just not equipped with the verb tenses required to report environmental news stories easily. Where's the tense that would allow environment reporters to write stories about predictions about the future as if they are occurring in the present,...