Posted on 09/18/2017 7:57:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Claims in the Mail on Sunday that global warming data had been exaggerated in order to secure the Paris climate change agreement have been criticised by the UK’s press regulator.
The Independent Press Standards Organisation censured the newspaper for publishing a story in early February that was flawed in key aspects. The news story suggested that data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), one of the world’s gold-standard sources of weather and climate research, had been treated in such a way as to suggest greater warming than had really occurred.
The research hinged on the “pause” in global warming that had been seized on by dismissers of climate change as evidence that the concerns of mainstream scientists had been overblown.
The Mail on Sunday article alleged that the NOAA had taken data that was “unverified” and used it to suggest the pause had not happened.
Ipso ruled that the Mail on Sunday had “failed to take care over the accuracy of the article and had then failed to correct these significantly misleading statements”. A spokesman for the Mail on Sunday said: “The subject of the rate of climate change is fiercely debated, with reputable scientists taking positions on both sides. The Mail on Sunday has published articles that challenge some widely held opinions. The complainant in this case is a professional spokesman for two academic institutions involved in the debate. He has complained to the press regulator on three previous occasions about our articles on climate change, but those complaints were rejected.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Independent Press Standards Organisation?
Izzat what they call the Ministry of Truth, nowadays?....................
The Goebbels Warming data HAS been manipulated to show results that are not in evidence.
Freedom of the Approved of Press
The English press was released from censorship after the 1688 Glorious Revolution. It became part of our heritage. Now, English pens labor under restrictions as bad as that under the Stuart kings. America is headed in the same direction.
Goofy headline sounds like someone is being pressed not to deliver mail on Sundays.
This is a terribly written article.
“The Independent Press Standards Organisation”
That is something Google and Facebook et al are trying to appoint themselves to the position of.
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