Source: Environmental Expert
Climate change scientists have put up with being misrepresented and misquoted by the world's press for years – but now they are fighting back.
The Sunday Times set the gold standard in corrections this week when it published a 400-word correction detailing how its recent Amazongate story was, how shall we put this, completely wrong.
The paper had originally written a story claiming the United Nation's 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a report 'grossly exaggerating the effects of global warming on the Amazon rainforest', which is strange because the report did nothing of the sort.
Cue a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission from one of the scientists interviewed for the story and, after several months of evasion, a detailed correction and a slap on the wrist for The Sunday Times and its offending journalist.
Although its not just the content of the newspapers that causes environmental headaches. London Assembly Liberal Democrat environment spokesman Mike Tuffrey has been wondering this week when any mayor will finally deliver on repeated pledges to install recycling points for the capital's 1.5 million daily free sheets.