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“Digg It!” - xcamel

I took your advice, and here are some of the comments I found:

http://digg.com/environment/Science_study_by_MIT_contradicts_global_warming_theory

Comments:

The author is censoring comments on that page which point out that he does not cite the source of his quotes: a press release which contradicts the central theme of his article.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/mio ...
Also, please see the following FACTUAL article on the subject from an AP science reporter:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ibwC_yqdCtXd24m ...

I’m sad to see that TGDaily has gone the way of Micheal Asher’s misinformation stream at DailyTech. It’s just a pathetic effort to get web traffic, because every conservative blog will link to a story like this. Sadly, it works, and these sites reap in ad money for misrepresenting the results of scientific papers.

I know that you deniers think you’re onto something here but you’re not. That TG Daily concoction is downright misleading and is a prime example of bad journalism. Read the statement directly from MIT. Nowhere does it say that these methane increases contradict global warming.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/methane-tt1029. ...

or better yet the actual article:
M. Rigby, R. Prinn, P. Fraser, P. Simmonds, R. Langenfelds, J. Huang1, D. Cunnold, P. Steele, P. Krummel, R.Weiss, S. O’Doherty, P. Salameh, H. Wang, C. Harth, J. Mühle, L. Porter. Renewed growth of atmospheric methane. Geophysical Review Letters, 28 pages 2008

Whoa, yeah after reading the actual MIT press release it does seem like TG Daily has misrepresented the findings of this research, or at least the researchers’ understanding of the meaning of the findings:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/methane-tt1029. ...

Before anyone posts anything, please check out the links to the actual study already posted.

Its already been pointed out that this article massively misrepresented the study they are basing this on, and took one line out of context to make it seem like the entire article from MIT was somehow refuting global warming as man-made.

It doesnt.

Here are some more balanced articles referencing the same study but reporting the actual gist of the conclusions. Links found by Jenga previously.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/mio ...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ibwC_yqdCtXd24m ...