As well as Monckton Media Watch also looked at the way Jamie Walker passed off his opinioin piece about the Great Barrier Reef as a straight news story. John Bruno dissects Walker's response.
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Media Watch has examined some more of Monckton's outlandish claims.
It turns out that the graph he claimed came from the "Barrier Reef Authority" actually came from John McLean.
And if you actually look at the McLean graph, rather than showing no change it shows warming. You can see it here at…
I wanted to like Sizzle. I really did. I like Randy Olson's contributions here on ScienceBlogs to Shifting Baselines. Randy is a former marine biologist and I have a degree in marine biology. He thinks the climate crisis is one of if not the most important public policy challenge of our time. So do…
The Independent tracks down the person who fabricated a fake quote used by folks like Christopher Monckton and Benny Peiser to attack John Houghton and scientists in general and it turns out to Piers Akerman in Sydney's Daily Telegraph.
That's bad enough, but look at Akerman's response when…
I did not have a chance to write about the Anthropology fracas that erupted several weeks ago, and I probably won't for a while. But Jamie Jones did.
When I met him Jamie was a grad student in the Anthro department at the small eastern college I got my PhD at. He and I taught together and got…
Talking of a war on science. Originally posted at Tamino:
"M&M got at least one person affiliated with GOP to make a bogus request. Does the name Sarah Ferguson (and no I am not referring to the royal). She goes by SarahF at CA, do a search. How many more are/were there?
Also, this is definitely worth a read:
http://shewonk.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/trolls-drawing-and-quartering-a…
Rush Limbaugh calling for âevery scientist at every university in this country thatâs been involved in this be named and fired, drawn and quartered.â I had no idea until reading her post what he meant by that.
So he can incite people to torture and/or murder climate scientists someone with no consequences?! Come on, people have been sent to prison for less.
If we get through this without losing a climate scientist at the hands of a madman weâll be very lucky, and going by Limbaughâs call to violence I do not think that is an exaggeration.
Iâm shocked and disgusted."
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