He created an impression of a threat to the American homeland that the intelligence does not seem to justify.
It is called colony collapse disorder (CCD), and its cause remains a mystery.Add to this worries about long-term falls in the populations of other pollinators, such as butterflies and bats, and the result is a growing impression of a threat to nature's ability to supply enough nectar-loving animals to service mankind's crops.
Respondents may have considered pandemic (H1N1) 2009 to be a mild disease because the perceived focus of health officials was on simple containment measures such as increased handwashing and covering sneezes rather than sophisticated approaches, which may have created an impression of a trivial threat.
Often, instead of the (usually important) scientific details, it seems the overall impression of the level of threat, and little phrases and analogies remembered by an end-user are quite influential to the overall multi-agency response to the situation.
Numbers can help with giving an impression of what the threats are and what the level of risk is, but a comprehensive understanding of a strategy such as acceptance requires more than this.
In a paper published by the RAND Corporation earlier this month, an analyst, Markus Schiller, said that there were strong indications that North Korea's missiles served largely as "a bluff" to "create the impression of a serious missile threat and thereby gain strategic leverage, fortify the North Korean regime's domestic power, and deter other countries".
This has created the popular impression of Chagas as a new threat, with some articles in the press linking it to climate change or illegal immigration.
And every time a minister announces a crackdown on illegal migration, they add to the impression of an ill-defined, uncontrolled threat.
The constant awareness of threat and easy shifting of impression management gears appears to be more characteristic of Europe in general, and Eastern Europe in particular, than North America.
At the same time, we have to correct a skewed impression of Europe: The EU isn't a threat, but a sensible evolution of the nation-state.
