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Sea level rise acceleration
Posted by Tim Lambert on December 12, 2012 You only have to look at the graph below showing sea level rise since 1880 to see that it has accelerated from about 1mm/year at the end of the 19th century to about 3mm/year at present.(from CSIRO). If you take a closer look at recent sea level rise you’ll see that it has been very…
ACMA complaint about the Bolt report
Posted by Tim Lambert on October 19, 2011 Alan Shore is making a complaint to ACMA about Andrew Bolt’s July 10 editorial on the Bolt report and is seeking feedback on the draft below. His original complaint to Network Ten is here and their response is here.
Court finds Andrew Bolt “disingenuous” and not to be trusted
Posted by Tim Lambert on September 30, 2011 Andrew Bolt has been held liable of violating the Racial Discrimination Act for writing two columns intended to offend and humiliate several people because they were Aboriginal. Bolt lost because his writing was not done reasonably and in good faith, which we know is characteristic of his work in other areas as well. The judgement…
Correction: Andrew Bolt likely prompted death threat sent to Anna-Maria Arabia
Posted by Tim Lambert on June 24, 2011 Earlier I wrote: Shortly after she got the death threat, [Anna-Maria] Arabia was attacked by Andrew Bolt. This was wrong. Although Bolt’s post was date stamped 11:16am, which was after Arabia received the threat, the first comment was at 6:39am so Bolt’s [ost appeared then. There was also a 7:56am comment at Pure Poison referencing…
Andrew Bolt interviewed on Steaming Toad
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 19, 2011 Tony Abbott gets his climate science from Andrew Bolt
Posted by Tim Lambert on March 29, 2011 Tony Abbott seems to have answered Julia Gillard’s question of whether you should get your climate science from reputable climate scientists or Andrew Bolt by going for Andrew Bolt. Bolt interviwed Tim Flannery who said “If the world as a whole cut all emissions tomorrow, the average temperature of the planet’s not going to drop…
Media Watch on the unbalanced coverage of climate science on talkback radio
Posted by Tim Lambert on March 22, 2011 Media Watch examines the coverage of climate change on commercial talkback radio. While Ian Plimer and Bob Carter are frequently on talkback radio, Not one orthodox climate scientist – not one – has been interviewed by any of the climate sceptics on Fairfax stations. As for 2GB, its management said it didn’t have time to…
Andrew Bolt says that radiation leaks are good for you!
Posted by Tim Lambert on March 20, 2011 After arguing that people should trust the scientists about nuclear power, Andrew Bolt is back with a post advancing the claim that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer. Said claim comes not from a scientist but from Ann Coulter, a creationist. PZ…
Andrew Bolt on whether you should trust scientists or political activists
Posted by Tim Lambert on March 15, 2011 Andrew Bolt writes Question: why do people who think their government and scientists would always lie about nuclear power also think green groups would always tell the truth? How can you be so cynical about the one and so gullible with the other? Why do people who think their government and scientists lie about climate…
Andrew Bolt column flooded with deceit
Posted by Tim Lambert on January 28, 2011 Andrew Bolt liked the trick of pointing to the one part of a document that doesn’t mention floods and pretending that there is no mention of floods in the whole document so much that he did it again in his column: The mantra was that global warming meant drought for us, and the 2007 Synthesis…