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Comment on Melanie Phillips on Winterval by The Winterval Myth, 2011 | The Disinformed

The Winterval Myth, 2011 | The Disinformed — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:37:50 +0000

[...] those of you familiar with my regular blog you will know that I emailed her about this and got a couple of abusive responses, whilst someone else contacted the Press Complaints [...]

Comment on Met Office responds to Mail on Sunday article by notjarvis

notjarvis — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:38:48 +0000

haha Referenced this in my blog about a random post that was lifted from the MoS article, yet still introduced more mistakes

http://notjarvisrants.blogspot.com/2012/01/shooting-global-warming-fish-in-barrel.html

Comment on Features and Distortions in the Daily Mail by Charlotte Barnes

Charlotte Barnes — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:45:45 +0000

Actually, making Susan wear a skirt for a photo would be nothing new for some newspapers. I worked for a large regional paper and our editor would not allow people of non-white ethinicity or men with beards on the front page, no matter what the story.

Comment on Mail on Sunday encourages us to ‘forget global warming’ by NeilH

NeilH — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:18:34 +0000

have a look at this: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/30/while-temperatures-rise-denialists-reach-lower/

Comment on The Daily Mail and I enter the Ricky Gervais ‘mong’ ‘debate’ by Chaim Paddaman

Chaim Paddaman — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:33:21 +0000

Ricky Gervais the liberal humanist who exploits the mentally disabled and vulnerable for commercial and comedy purposes. He thanks “God” that he is an atheist. so do we….
Gervais is a yellow pussy who only hits on safe and soft targets.

Comment on Mail on Sunday encourages us to ‘forget global warming’ by Philip Evans

Philip Evans — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:17:43 +0000

Isn’t David Rose an alias for Johann Hari?

The DM seems to confuse the CRU (at East Anglia) with Reading University. The Met office release is http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2011/2012-global-temperature-forecast (It contradicts most of the Mail article.

I have just noticed a second release http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/met-office-in-the-media-29-january-2012/
which comments on this article!

Comment on Mail on Sunday encourages us to ‘forget global warming’ by J

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:26:46 +0000

Slightly better fit with the timing, but about as bad in terms of content matching…
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/news/

In reference to

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climate/government/risk-assessment/

=.=” Apologies for the spam.

Comment on Mail on Sunday encourages us to ‘forget global warming’ by Damocles

Damocles — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:47:55 +0000

There are datasets dated Jan 2012 available: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/

Comment on Mail on Sunday encourages us to ‘forget global warming’ by J

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:38:38 +0000

Gotit. I think. All other sources I’ve seen referring to the Met office in conjunction with this sort of comment say Reading, not East Anglia. UEA have been keeping their heads down a lot lately…

http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/newsandevents/releases/PR428852.aspx

I don’t have access to a subscription, but I’ll bug my climatology lecturer and write a bit if he can get it. From the acceptance date, I don’t think it’s actually out yet except perhaps on preview, but churnalism.com isn’t working for me on this computer, so I can’t work back on it from the other logical base for that steaming load of article.

Comment on Mail on Sunday encourages us to ‘forget global warming’ by Andy

Andy — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:41:49 +0000

What they’ve done is taken an arbitrary start point i.e. 1997, noted that 1998 was an unusually hot year which hasn’t been exceeded since and equated that with ‘no warming in 15 years’. As you obviously know this is nonsense and is the worst kind of selective reporting.

Picking different arbitrary start/finish dates e.g. 2000 and 2010 gives us OMG 0.2 degrees rise in 10 years which would be equally silly. It’s the long term trends that matter.