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Fastest disinformer retraction: Watts says Goddard’s “Arctic ice increasing by 50000 km2 per year” post is “an example of what not to do when graphing trends”

By Joe Romm on Jul 3, 2010 at 12:57 pm

Plus science blogosphere roundup: “Fred Pearce is a rubbish journalist” and Eric Stieg on PNAS

Ironygate:  The king of cherry picking just threw the prince (jester?) of cherry picking under the bus for picking some really, really bad cherries:

WUWT

Thank you Anthony Watts for leaving this nonsense on your blog and acknowledging it as “an example of what not to do when graphing trends, to illustrate that trends are very often slaves to endpoints” — as opposed to 99% of your other posts, which you continue to embrace even though they are also examples of what not to do, such as these recent absurdities:

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Ex-Im bank should build jobs through clean energy

By Sean Pool on Jul 3, 2010 at 8:56 am

Export-Import Bank need not reconsider recent coal decision

Last week, the U.S. Export-Import Bank announced that they would not provide a loan guarantee to an Indian company that would help them buy $600 million of American-made coal-mining equipment.  The decision was based on the fact that the purchase would lead to massive greenhouse gas emissions, which goes against new Bank policy.

On Wednesday, under pressure from the National Association of Manufacturers and other fossil fuel industry supporters, the Bank agreed to reconsider its decision to not provide the financing assistance.  By agreeing to reconsider the decision, the Bank has taken a step backwards, but not nearly as big a step backwards as it would be to reverse the decision.  CAP’s Richard Caperton and Sean Pool have the story

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