Breitbart Silent About Big Error on His Big Government Site

[marmar]

from Mother Jones:





On September 6, an article on Andrew Breitbart's Big Government site announced that the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change had been debunked once and for all. Nature, "the world's most cited scientific periodical, has just published the definitive study on Global Warming that proves the dominant controller of temperatures in the Earth's atmosphere is due to galactic cosmic rays and the sun, rather than by man," the article said. "One of the report's authors, Professor Jyrki Kauppinen, summed up his conclusions regarding the potential for man-made Global Warming: 'I think it is such a blatant falsification.'"

The article, written by "nationally recognized financial writer" Chriss W. Street, then revisited the smear campaign known as "Climategate" (which had implicated Nature) and asserted that the study was "a tectonic rejection by academia" of international efforts to combat climate change.

There was one little problem with the Big Government piece, though. Professor Jyrki Kauppinen, supplier of the "blatant falsification" comment, was not one of the study's 63 authors. And it turns out that the article's breathless summary of what the study shows is (shockingly!) flat-out wrong.

The quote from the non-author caught the attention of New York Times environmental writer Andrew Revkin, who submitted an error report about it at MediaBugs, a nonpartisan site that helps get errors in the news media corrected. (Disclosure: I'm one of the site's creators.) MediaBugs then alerted Breitbart to the mistake using Big Government's online feedback form, and also sought a response from him multiple times on Twitter. Breitbart has not responded and has ignored the mistake. (I also emailed Street for a response, to no avail.) ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/breitbart-error-global-warming

[mod mom]

1. surprise surprise! Marmar..Pls post a warning before posting such a despicable photo

this early in the morning. ;)

[marmar]

2. Sorry about that.....I assumed everyone had already eaten breakfast like I have.

:P

[Ohio Joe]

3. He is not being "Silent About Big Error "

He is propagating a big lie for his corporate masters.

[formercia]

4. This is what happens

when you let a child shit in their pants whenever they please. Even getting beat up at school didn't prevent Breitbart from becoming what he is today.

[Blue Owl]

5. Breitbart = massive fart in a broom closet

Dude stinks to holy hell.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. Right-wing scum never have to answer for anything

And now that Weiner "legitimized" him, you can forget it.

[gratuitous]

7. Will Breitbart lose his popular media credibility?

Magic 8 Ball says "Signs Point to No."

Naturally, if a liberal media watchdog so much as spells someone's name wrong, they lose all credibility immediately. Breitbart, along with so many of his fellow travelers on the right can do nothing that will damage their credibility. They might get a brief time out, but soon enough all will be forgotten (like trying to break into a Senator's office and tamper with her phone system - let's just say), and air time will once again be eagerly provided for whatever new smear they've come up with.