Stuart Rintoul
tlambert | August 7, 2011Chip Le Grand, Victorian editor of The Australian, complains that Stuart Rintoul was victimized by Media Watch. Just like Rintoul, Le Grand misrepresents Watson's paper:
[Rintoul] brought to national attention research by NSW researcher Phil Watson showing that sea levels around Australia over the past 100 years haven't risen as quickly as scientists would have expected them to as a result of global warming.
This isn't true. Watson did not compare the sea level rises with expected sea level rises as a result of global warming. As Kathleen McInnes of the CSIRO told Media Watch:
The study by…
tlambert | August 3, 2011Media Watch does an excellent report on Stuart Rintoul's misrepresentation of Phil Watson's paper.
Count the whoppers from The Australian. The Australian:
as I understand it the CSIRO was invited to comment to Media Watch and declined to do so.
Kathleen McInnnes of the CSIRO on how they weren't invited to comment:
CSIRO ... would have appreciated the opportunity to clarify what is a complex issue for many people.
The Australian:
Phil Watson ... has made no complaint about how his research was represented in the article and will not.
Watson's Department:
Mr Watson does not agree with the…
tlambert | July 22, 2011Phil Watson, Team Leader of the Coastal Unit in the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water was probably pleased when The Australian's Stuart Rintoul asked to interview him about his work. Watson was the man who organised A snapshot of future sea levels: photographing the king tide. The photographs of the king tide in 12 January 2009 are intended to help prepare NSW to adapt to a possible 90cm of sea level rise this century. So I'm guessing he wasn't too pleased when Rintoul's front page story about his work claimed that "Watson has written a report stating that global…