Tuesday, November 16, 2010

- Bishop Hill blog - Jones in Nature
The question we have to ask is whether David Adam was aware that the email in question had as its subject line David Holland's FOI request number the words "IPCC & FOI" - clearly relating to the request in which David Holland asked for emails relating to the IPCC assessment report. Either way, the reader comes away from from Adam's article completely misled.
Let the Inuit drown, for Jake must fly | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
So when even his warming protest involves hypocrisy, who can be surprised by Gyllenhaal’s latest flights:
ACTOR Jake Gyllenhaal has spent up big and rented a personal jet to woo his new love, country singer Taylor Swift. The Brokeback Mountain actor reportedly spent $165,000 whisking the chart-topping country singer from America to the UK on a private jet to be with her for 24-hours.
The Jones “rehabilitation” | Watts Up With That?
There’ an article in Nature Magazine which is an interview with Phil Jones of the CRU regarding his role in Climategate and what has happened in the past year. It seems to be mostly a sappy rehabilitation piece where Dr. Jones gets to play the victim and the reporter is fully sympathetic. Even more troublesome, Dr. Jones seems to have fully rationalized everything that has happened in the past year.
Would more science reporting lead to better climate policy? | CEJournal
A new study has found that just 10 percent of the journalistic coverage of the Copenhagen climate negotiations last winter actually focused on science. And the author, James Painter, doesn’t seem terribly happy about it.

In the report he argues that as the frequency and severity of extreme weather events increases, there is “a pressing need for more public understanding of the science.” The task of educating the public largely falls largely to journalists, he says, but we’re not doing our jobs adequately.

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