While it was still behind the paywall, I hadn't appreciated quite how bad this piece is. Now I do. (Thread)
telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/0…
telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/0…
We're promised early on an exposé of the "disinformation" that is duping us all. But I guess the author forgot to include it. What she did include was a lone comment that the warming per decade used for projections in 2007 was 0.2C per decade. But it's only been 0.05, we're told!
Yet you can see from the graph alone that the 0.2C figure is about right. As NASA says, it's been around 0.15-0.2 C per decade since 1975.
The link in support of her false claim goes to a Telegraph piece saying that the 2007 IPCC projected 0.13C per dec, but in 2013...
The link in support of her false claim goes to a Telegraph piece saying that the 2007 IPCC projected 0.13C per dec, but in 2013...
... they "admitted" it was only 0.12C!! (That old article picks up on all kinds of little updates and makes out they are serious errors.)
The Telegraph is now pushing the "arson" theories of the Australian fires.
We could, I suppose, wonder if these people are honest fools, or if they ever question the motives that underlie these idiotic and damaging articles. But...
We could, I suppose, wonder if these people are honest fools, or if they ever question the motives that underlie these idiotic and damaging articles. But...
...frankly, the world is burning, and I think it's time to start asking hard questions. The press must be free, but also accountable. We need some way to make it so - especially when the misinformation is this obvious.
Anyway, I'm on a panel at Hay in Colombia discussing climate change at the end of the month, and I'll certainly be calling this stuff out then.
