Okay, bloggers aren’t journalists, but some headlines are just beyond the pale for insensitivity:
No, I’m not going subject you to the full schoolyard headline. The post has been up for a few hours (click here if you must), which suggests Watts is okay with it. Even more amazingly, I see that the original piece that Watts is excerpting doesn’t use the word at all, which means it was added by the WattsUpWithThat folks. Still, I suspect/hope the headline will be changed by the time you look, anyway, though the URL will probably remain….
I guess Watts didn’t take kindly to Rudd’s blistering speech last year (see Australia’s Rudd slams the “deniers” and the “gaggle” of “conspiracy theorists” opposing climate action).
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Dr. Romm, I just read your “The breakthrough technology illusion” of April 6, 2009. It is an outstanding, well thought out analysis. It should be publish in the mass media and read by Congressional Stuff and that of the Energy Department, in addition to the public.
http://climateprogress.org/2009/04/06/breakthrough-technology-illusion-global-warming-solution/
[JR: Thanks. It'll be a chapter in my new book, if that counts. I'll probably reprint it when the book comes out.]
The article comes from an Australian website Joannenova. There the title is Wholesale thet in the name of carbon.
And now it’s Australia’s restrictive Rudd government at WUWT. Progress!
[JR: Climate Progress! I have accomplished something tangible today!]
It’s been reworded, with a somewhat unconvincing explanation that requires the original title to have been grammatically incorrect.
Either way, it’s progress.
The legislation on land clearing was not Rudd’s nor had anything to do with carbon policies. The piece is entirely disingenuous.
Well, it seems that there are at least some commenters in the WUWT thread that raise the points not covered in the post, such as the farmer’s staggering debt and mismanagement of his farmland that resulted in his predicament. Also deafening is the silence regarding the bigger picture of WHY land management in Australia is such as sensitive issue and WHY laws are the way they are. A sorry piece and fully within the standards of WUWT.
As a matter of fact, he’s looking forward to eating again. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/13/2791513.htm