Wednesday, 29 October 2014

Bolt's Bog 29/10/14 Bolt's oft quoted charleton source of science, Bolt calls himself a 'journalist' that's about as close asTaylor being referred to as a 'scientific expert'. Kardashian's of advocacy bad ones at that.


 

The new consensus: what global warming crisis?


 James Taylor, a senior fellow for environment policy at conservative think-tank The Heartland Institute, wrote at Forbes that the meaning of the new research is clear -- and it compromises what he called a "central premise of alarmist global warming theory."

Yes, Taylor - a paid advocate for the Heartland Institute, itself designed and funded specifically for the purpose of repudiating the concept of Climate Change - did write that. And Forbes, another near constant (but not always) Climate Change misinformation media source, did publish it.
He was caught out fudging NOAA research data to suit his denier arguments and publicly embarassed and sued.
Fox often refer to him as their source of scientific data an Andrew Bolt has a tendancy to refer to him as an expert. He is a lawyer who took science classes in college, and a paid advocate who works for a center specifically designed for the purpose of refuting Climate Change,  They often use him to achieve their seeming aims:  namely, to undermine and refute the idea of Climate Change and, it seems, any real understanding of the issue that doesn't align with its extreme  and highly misinformed view that Climate Change does not pose a significant threat. Bolt is just pure lazy and merely uses Taylor because he's in the Fox Archives.
The word scientist, in an overt attempt at wildly spun advocacy - the opposite of news reporting, almost by definition - it means "alarmist," not scientist, in every single of the many pieces that Forbes has "published" by Taylor) 

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