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Murdoch press – THE AUSTRALIAN – caught out on climate change error

The Australian corrects the record on climate change  Crikey, CATHY ALEXANDER | JAN 17, 2013 
The national broadsheet has issued a correction for a recent story which claimed rising sea levels were “not linked to warming”. Read what was in the story, and what was wrong with it, here.

The Australian has issued a rare correction on climate change, for a story which claimed rising sea levels were “not linked to warming”.

The story, which appeared under an “exclusive” tag on Tuesday and was written by environment editor Graham Lloyd, was based on a recent scientific paper in the Journal of Climate. Lloyd wrote that “the latest science on sea level rises has found no link to global warming”.

Crikey read the research paper, looked into Lloyd’s three articles on the subject, and highlighted inaccuracies in the way the research was presented(read Crikey’s stories here and here). A correction appeared in The Australiantoday, and the original story has been taken down….
The Australian has been criticised in the past for running stories which some perceive as misrepresenting the science on anthropogenic climate change, but it has rarely issued corrections on its climate change stories.http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/01/17/the-australian-corrects-the-record-on-climate-change/

January 18, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, media