Demand an end to alarmist reporting

The editor of the fiercely warmist Sunday Age offers you an opportunity:

Ever complained about media coverage of climate change in the media? Here’s your chance to change it

Feel free to help this paper reform its deceits and exaggerations. Because in fact:

predictions of sea level rises now seem to have been greatly exaggerated;

ice loss in the Arctic has not worsened in four years;

no one denies global warming is happening;



Let the Sunday Age know. Demand better journalism.

 

Another milestone for my TV show

Thanks very much again.

After just three months the total audience for our show has dropped out of the ratings surveys:

The Clot Report 109,000  

The Clot Report Encore 89,000

Our lowest numbers ever. We’re chuffed.

 

Blog readers laundry

A new series: the laundry of typical readers of my blog.

Adrian has a bit of work ahead of him.

LeftRightOut forgets his basket.

Beryl has a lovely basket.

 

Rates must go up and they will

Terry McCrann once again does his analysis ahead of today's Reserve Bank board meeting

The Reserve Bank really has no choice. It must lift its official cash rate (today); and it will... 

Now a rate rise will come absent only some form of global financial meltdown before Tuesday. And the warring politicians in the US still failing to agree to lift their debt ceiling would NOT of itself constitute such an event.

Terry tells me he's the man to watch on monetary policy and I hear he has picked 18 of the last 2 moves in official interest rates.

Well done Terry. I'm sure today will be no exception. Read about the RBA's decision here.

 

Just how much power over us do warmists want?

It’s increasingly clear that even more dangerous than the carbon dioxide tax are the measures taken by Left wing governments to crush resistance against it and force you to comply:

The Conservative government of John Howard introduced the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (the NGER Act). The act set up a compulsory national framework for the reporting and dissemination of information about greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gas projects, and energy use and production of corporations.
The objectives of the NGER Act, as stated in the legislation, are to:

• inform government policy and the Australian public

• help meet Australia’s international reporting obligations

• assist Commonwealth, state and territory government programs and activities

• avoid the duplication of similar reporting requirements in the states and territories

• underpin the introduction of an emissions trading scheme

The first annual reporting period began on 1 July 2008. Corporations that meet an NGER threshold must report their:

• greenhouse gas emissions

• energy production

• energy consumption

• other information specified under NGER legislation

GetUp turns to ShutUp

The creeping totalitarianism of the Left:

Under the commercial broadcasting code of conduct, broadcasters are required to make reasonable efforts to ensure that factual material is accurate, and are given 30 days to make a correction after they receive an initial complaint.

GetUp! had made a complaint to the Australian Communications and Media Authority that says the broadcaster 2GB was wrong when he stated human beings produce only 0.001 per cent of carbon dioxide in the air 

GetUp! has also alleged Mr Jones contravenes another section of the code of conduct which requires broadcasters to give ''reasonable opportunities'' to ''significant viewpoints'' on ''controversial issues of public importance''.

Mr Jones today denied ever having made the comment and said the complaint was politically motivated.

"I never said that at all," he told AAP.

And Jones quite rightly points out:

Much of my stuff is opinion … I am a broadcaster, I don't pretend (to know what I'm talking about)..." 

''… (my)opinions lack validity...(my) opinions are extreme..."

Why shouldn't  Alan Jones be entitled to his own facts?

And what gives GetUp! the right to use the existing complaints process for the codes of practice developed by the industry itself under section 123 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992?

Surely the complaint process should only be used so we can complain about the ABC?

Farr out on Monckton

We’re told repeatedly that Lord Monckton is no scientist and his arguments against global warming alarmism are nonsense.

So it’s very telling after having been grudgingly granted a debate at the National Press Club that no scientist or journalist or scientist or scientists have come forward as yet to demonstrate some fraud or foolish error in Monckton’s arguments.

None.

Nada.