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THE AUSTRALIAN newspaper twists climate information to benefit fossil fuel industries

The Australian newspaper’s war on science, truth and journalistic ethics continues. Independent Australia, Managing editor David Donovan reports. 17 Jan 12, 

In last Wednesday’s The Australian newspaper, columnist Imre Salusinszky came out with the quite extraordinary claim that the world had “beaten global warming”.

He said we should congratulate ourselves; that the worst dangers no longer loom over us……. Here’s some of what he said:………

“Last year was the sixth coldest since 1997, which shows the catastrophic scenarios of recent times are no longer looming over us.”

According to Salusinszky, because last year was only the 8^th hottest in the last 14 years, and some parts of the world had below average temperatures, global warming is beat……

Because if Salusinzky had looked at the data from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) as he suggests he has, he must know that, although 2011 was “the sixth coldest since 1997” (or the 8^th hottest, whichever you prefer) it was also, according to the WMO, the 10^th hottest year the world has ever recorded and the hottest ever during a La Nina weather event…….

the newspaper has been conducting a calculating and concerted campaign to discredit the established and very clear consensus in global warming science and foster doubt about the need for climate action. It is the only newspaper in Australia that publishes these sorts of unscientific denialist articles — and it does publish this anti-science on a daily basis.

And while The Australian fiddles with public opinion, the world gets hotter.  http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/media-2/the-australian-declares-victory-in-war-on-global-warming/

January 17, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, media