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WORLD WAKES TO CORRECTION
A correction from the Independent:
In Editorial and Opinion on Saturday (3 February) we wrote that ‘ExxonMobil is attempting to bribe scientists to pick holes in the IPPC’s assessment (on climate change).’ We now recognise that this statement is incorrect and we withdraw it.
Let’s see if a similar correction appears in the Sydney Morning Herald:
Note the headline at right on the SMH’s Feb. 3 front page: “Bribes offered to scientists.”
(Via Scott Burgess, now returned to London from New Orleans, and Garth G.)
UPDATE. Mark Steyn wonders when the SMH will notice a real calamity.
Is Wron on holidays in the Caribbean with Scarlett or something?
No, I think the SMH‘s “Love In A Foreign Climate” Travel feature is about picking up polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba, Wiz.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 11 at 12:15 PM • permalinkI’m telling you, once we get Labour/Democrats/Socialists back in their rightful places as Chief Executives of western industiralized nations, all this bother about the weather will go away. As evidence for this amazing assertion, I offer you the example of China. We never hear about the impact of one sixth of the world’s population burning coal or wood or even petroleum products on the climate do we? Nope, just Bush and Howard.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2007 02 11 at 12:32 PM • permalinkThis oughta be actionable. I look forward to the the day when ExxonMobile takes ownership of these lefty rags!!!
Posted by nofixedabode on 2007 02 11 at 12:34 PM • permalinkAnyone else read this pricless little gem in the Good Weekend (Saturday’s SMH)
It’s a bit about climate canaries (yes like those canaries in a mine but people)
From the article:
Are canaries really sacrificial lambs?
Yes. Millions of underprivileged world citizens are already suffering even though they barely contribute to global warming (the average Nepali’s total annual carbon dioxide emissions are equivalent to your use of an electric kettle for a year)
Meanwhile rich nations squabble about carbon trading and their citizens drive cars to their local gym and stick their washing in a dryer because it’s easier than hanging it on the line
Now I’m wracked with global warming guilt
Why is it always a guilt thing - living in this century with stuff people invented to make life better?
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 02 11 at 12:45 PM • permalink#3, Hey I’d take Scarlett on holiday wherever she asks…
#5, Well hey, imagine your two closest friends. Now consider that one of you three has no impact at all on global worming. (According to Kyoto its the guy with the darkest tan, the other two take all the blame (yeah I know, but what proportion of the geo-population live in Africa?))
“In theory Communism works” H J Simpson…
#7, Now I’m a Luddite, and a ‘true conservative’ (conserve water, power and ammunition), now correct me if im wrong, but shouldn’t the Nepalese be looking forward to glowball warming?
And perhaps the downfall of communism?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2007 02 11 at 02:06 PM • permalinkThose damn scientists! They won’t lift a finger unless someone bribes ‘em.
How many media frauds have missed the point that the actual report has not been released, and that the executive summary is UNreliable?
In other reality based news, Jeff McMullen was interviewed on News Radio this morning about his new talkfest starting tonight after 4 Corners. Jeff was adamant that there is no institutional bias at the ABC, although from time to time individuals might make mistakes.
He also made the bold prediction that the people on his show would be there to argue the issues in the national interest and not to make cheap political points. Whew! That’s a relief. The ABC must have updated and overhauled its list of acceptable invited “talent”. So if you see/hear Richard Neville or Hugh Mackay, not to mention the whole cast of the Lowy Institute, turn it off right away. Same old, same old?I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - it should be a part of a print media license that a correction must appear on the same page and in the same font as the original mistake.
That will stop a lot of the front page hysterical nonsense that we see too often.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 02 11 at 04:46 PM • permalinkI thought it was a neat pre-emptive strike against adverse comment on the UN report. Immediately put in people’s minds that not only are deniers probably funded by big oil, they are openly and directly bribed.
The fact that it was either not true or misrepresented doesn’t matter now. The bribe headline will stick in peoples heads and constitute a great debating talking point.
I look to the day, when one of these Companies sues the arse of the Globula Warming mob, and the media outlets that repeat or report this propaganda as news. The Independent, took the astute move of printing a retraction. I don’t see Fairfax doing it, they are so consumed with self importance and arrogance. Then again I could be wrong but I doubt it. I hope Exxon/Mobile’s legal department are having a good look at the options.
Memo to Production Manager
from Alan Oakley, Editor SMHMate some bloody lunatics on that effing Blair blog have pointed out a minor slip we made on the front page the day we ran that brilliant headline World Wakes to Calamity. One of my better efforts that one. Jaspan at the Age was fucking livid he didn’t think of it.
Anyway, we kind of intimated that Exxon was offering bribes to scientists to dispute the IPCC report, which, if not true, bloody well
should be, fucking big oil. If you can find about an inch of free space somewhere after page 45, just run this mate.ACCIDENTAL ERROR
The Sydney Morning Herald regrets that on Saturday 3rd February we ran an item on our front page that involved the multinational oil gouger and major polluter, Exxon. Although it was published from usually reliable sources, it turns out that perhaps it was maybe, perhaps, just a little bit inaccurate.Are canaries really sacrificial lambs?
#7, hmm, this is confusing. Flannery et al say that polar bears are the ‘canaries in the mine’ for the forthcoming global warming disaster. So, if canaries are lambs, does this mean polar bears are lambs too? And more importantly, do polar bears taste like lambs or canaries?
*scratches head* This globule warmening stuff is hard.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 02 11 at 09:04 PM • permalink“Although polar bear meat is considered delicious it is never eaten raw like other meats because it carries many parasites. The polar bear liver is never eaten or fed to the dogs because it causes Vitamin A poisoning, which results in severe illness or even death. Polar bear meat, like most country foods, is an excellent source of iron and protein. Polar bear fat provides Inuit with Vitamin A and omega-3 fatty acids which helps reduce the risk of heart disease. Polar bear meat is usually baked or boiled in a soup or stew.”
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 02 11 at 09:23 PM • permalinkGood site, J.M., although I prefer narwhal, myself, because you can pick your teeth with the tusk when you’re done.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 11 at 11:04 PM • permalinkThis whole bribery issue is a complete beat up by the usual hard left suspects led by The Guardian.
Read the AEI’s response to the ‘story’, which I’m sorry, but not surprised, to say has been widely under-reported.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 02 11 at 11:15 PM • permalink#19, 20, thanks! :)
Meanwhile, this story is hilarious on many levels:
Protesters to ram whaling ship
HARLDINE anti-whaling activists are threatening to sacrifice their ship in Antarctic waters by ramming a Japanese whaler.Captain Paul Watson, head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, said today his vessel, the Farley Mowat, was almost out of fuel and he was considering giving the Japanese whaler, the Nisshin Maru, a “steel enema’’ by ramming its slipway .
Mr Watson said his boat, currently north of the Balleny Islands, west of the Ross Sea, was now seen as a pirate vessel, and he would rather lose it in defence of whales than to bureaucrats.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 02 11 at 11:19 PM • permalinkSteyn on Blair and the SMH:
http://tinyurl.com/3bx96bPosted by andycanuck on 2007 02 11 at 11:23 PM • permalinkGo on, read this and say we have never been there before.
Main Author:Lacey, Robert.
Title:The year 1000 : what life was like at the turn of the first millennium : an Englishman’s world /
Edition:1st ed.
Publication Details:Boston : Little, Brown, c1999.
ISBN:0316558400Yes, I know what you are thinking. Bloody librarians.
So the world wakes up to THE WARMENING….and the SMH is giving away a $35,000 car?
Posted by Major John on 2007 02 12 at 02:02 PM • permalink#27 Don’t worry, it has air conditioning.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 12 at 05:58 PM • permalink
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“Bribes offered to scientists.”
Well thats clearly a typo, it should read;
‘“Independent funding” offered to scientists’...
Is Wron on holidays in the Caribbean with Scarlett or something?
That Bastard, I’ll get him for this…