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The Australian's disgraceful climate change coverage continues

I think we need a competition to discern The Australian newspaper's most shameful contribution to the climate change debate.

The most recent disgrace was the weekend's front page headline "Science tempers fears on climate change" referring to the now well leaked IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) draft report. While the Australian describes their obtaining of the report as an "exclusive", the report has been doing the rounds here and o/s for a while.

While everyone else on the planet sees the report as evidence that global warming is worse than thought (a minimum of a 3 degree increase, up from a previously predicted minimum of 2 degrees) only The Australian could butcher the IPCC findings to call that a 'tempering' of fears on climate change.

But remember this is the paper whose senior writer recently said of Australia - "the country has become a world leader in combating climate change"

John Quiggin has a critique which is spot on.

 

 

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