{"id":2973,"date":"2012-05-10T14:50:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T02:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2013-04-25T15:51:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T03:51:48","slug":"stuff-co-nz-journalism-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2973","title":{"rendered":"Stuff.co.nz Journalism Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Main story at stuff.co.nz for the last hour or two: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/science\/6896557\/Solar-minimum-could-trigger-Ice-Age\">Solar Minimum could trigger ice age<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check the article&#8217;s opening paras:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The world could be heading for a new &#8216;solar minimum&#8217; period, possibly plummeting the planet into an Ice Age, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say the present increase in sun activity with solar flares and storms could be followed by this minimum period.<\/p>\n<p>The period would see a cooling of the planet, refuting predictions of global-warming alarmists.<\/p>\n<p>The research for this comes from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WHAT THE HELL.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Refuting the predictions of global-warming alarmists&#8221;? What kind of language is that? Completely inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>To google, and in moments I&#8217;ve found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/ngeo1460.html\">the abstract<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/05\/120506160119.htm\">ScienceDaily&#8217;s summary<\/a>. From the latter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;those findings cannot be directly transferred to future projections because the current climate is additionally affected by anthropogenic forcing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, from &#8220;climate is affected by anthropogenic forcing&#8221; to &#8220;refuting predictions of global warming alarmists&#8221; in one easy step.<\/p>\n<p>This is UNACCEPTABLE. Where did it come from? A media release from one of the &#8220;climate sceptic&#8221; pressure groups? Heads should bloody well roll over this.<\/p>\n<p>Too angry about this to say any more.<\/p>\n<p>EDITED TO ADD: see also <a href=http:\/\/hot-topic.co.nz\/stuff-stuff-up-another-bloody-ice-age\/>Hot Topic<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/sciblogs.co.nz\/the-atavism\/2012\/05\/10\/an-object-lesson-in-the-danger-of-poor-science-reporting\/>The Atavism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main story at stuff.co.nz for the last hour or two: &#8220;Solar Minimum could trigger ice age&#8221; Check the article&#8217;s opening paras: The world could be heading for a new &#8216;solar minimum&#8217; period, possibly plummeting the planet into an Ice Age, scientists say. 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