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Greenieleft- ABC launch New Current Affairs Program

This media release fell on our desk this morning (Click to enlarge):

Exclusive opinion?

ABC HEADLINE: Why I think Climate Change is real. Posted to the ABC Environment Blog under that heading "Exclusives" on 25 March 2011
ABC REPORTED: The article is a copy, under a different title, of an article published at The Conversation on the 24 March 2011.A note at the end of the ABC version notes it was reposted from The Conversation.
THE COMPLAINT: How does this article count as an "Exclusive"? How does this and other opinion pieces listed as "Exclusive" by ABC Environment count as "exclusive" when this term is generally used in journalism to refer to NEWS reporting and not opinion pieces? How many other articles has ABC Environment falsely claimed to be "Exclusive". Will ABC THE DRUM follow suite and also list its opinion pieces as "exclusives". Has ABC environment broke any actual NEWS stories in the past 12 months that might be considered as "exclusive"?
OUTCOME: Pending
COMMENT: A definition of exclusive: "a piece of news, or the reporting of a piece of news, obtained by a newspaper or other news organization, along with the privilege of using it first."

Missing News: Sea level rise-out by one or two orders of magnitude!

ABC misses yet another peer reviewed paper that highlights deficiencies with the status quo of the UNs IPCC. It is clear that the ABC's Groupthink position on climate change has thoroughly mislead its audience's understanding of the state of climate science.
This time ABC fail to cover an important new paper on sea level rise that concludes:
Our analyses do not indicate acceleration in sea level in U.S. tide gauge records during the 20th century. Instead, for each time period we consider, the records show small decelerations that are consistent with a number of earlier studies of worldwide-gauge records. The decelerations that we obtain are opposite in sign and one to two orders of magnitude less than the +0.07 to +0.28 mm/y accelerations that are required to reach sea levels predicted for 2100 by Vermeer and Rahmsdorf (2009), Jevrejeva, Moore, and Grinsted (2010), and Grinsted, Moore, and Jevrejeva (2010). Bindoff et al. (2007) note an increase in worldwide temperature from 1906 to 2005 of 0.74C. It is essential that investigations continue to address why this worldwide-temperature increase has not produced acceleration of global sea level over the past 100 years, and indeed why global sea level has possibly decelerated for at least the last 80 years.
From: Sea-Level Acceleration Based on U.S. Tide Gauges and Extensions of Previous Global-Gauge Analyses by Houston and Dean. Published in the Journal of Coastal Research

Lava Lamp

7:30 questions....
When will Chris Uhlmann stand down over his blatant conflict of interest?
Has anyone seen Leigh Sales and Julia Gillard together in the same room?
Does anyone else find 7:30's costly lava lamp set a distraction?

Stuffing up the basics

Jonathan Green, editor of The Drum, shows off his editing skills. 

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