:ABC NEWS: "an underwhelming performance"

Mark Day comments on recent developments in News at the ABC. The conclusion that its been an underwhelming performance rings true. Read the article: "Not a good look for Aunty as top guns fail to fire"

Skorea or Nkorea

ABC News in 2010 "Palin stands with 'our North Korean allies"

ABC in 2008...

oops!

Best not to throw stones in that fragile glass house.
SO, so glad that ABC is not running for Presidential candidacy.

Might have been raised elsewhere, but... 

H/T to Chris P. anyway.

(note that headline has since been corrected)

Breaking news - ABC reveal Nation's true traditional owners

YOUR taxes at work.

Additional mix ups between headlines and images immediately below and see HERE for some examples from last week. 

Friday Funny

ABC Environment still mixing up images with headlines, here's a selection:

Something fishy...

The Mr Big of Abalone

 

Smugglers foiled by Sydney Traffic

 

I caught a fish...this big! 

Easy to catch, not so easy to clean.

  We miss Kevin

Julia Gillard reveals her true self.

 Sandbaggers go too far!

More from ABC's "rice paddy guy" 

Vietnamese rice farmers breath sigh of relief

Promise from now on to use real crash test dummies

Because ABC thinks all migrant workers look like this.

 

Vietnamese rice farmer sighs...not again.

missing News: Coral gone...on migration

If you only read the ABC this report that claims "Coral reefs could be gone by 2050" may have sent the shivers down your spine. Here's some research ABC's activists (following revelations of bias we can hardly could call them journalists or even reporters anymore) are unlikely to report that provides a more realistic outcome based on a little thing called evidence...

Corals moving  north

Some Pacific corals have done the equivalent of moving from sunnyAtlanta to Detroit, possibly in response to rising ocean temperatures.

A new study of reefs around Japanreveals that a handful of coral species have migrated from the balmy subtropics to temperate climate zones over the last 80 years. The study is the first to track coral reefs for such a long time and over several latitude lines, a Japanese team reports in an upcoming Geophysical Research Letters

Taken with other studies that report animals moving north as temperature rises, it’s a good hypothesis that the corals in this study are moving to fight the heat, says John Pandolfi, a marine biologist at the University ofQueensland in Brisbane, Australia. Researchers will next need to study these species in the lab to test whether temperature is truly the culprit.

But adjusting the marine thermostat isn’t the only way to kill a coral. Too much acidity from high concentrations of carbon dioxide can also weaken coral reefs. So it’s peculiar that the Japanese corals moved north, says Pandolfi, because their new homes are likely more saturated with carbon dioxide. It appears corals are able and willing to make that trade-off, he says.

Importantly the study also showed no changes at the southern end.
"We show the first large-scale evidence of the poleward range expansion of modern corals, based on 80 years of national records from the temperate areas of Japan, where century-long measurements of in situ sea-surface temperatures have shown statistically significant rises. Four major coral species categories, including two key species for reef formation in tropical areas, showed poleward range expansions since the 1930s, whereas no species demonstrated southward range shrinkage or local extinction. The speed of these expansions reached up to 14 km/year, which is far greater than that for other species. Our results, in combination with recent findings suggesting range expansions of tropical coral-reef associated organisms, strongly suggest that rapid, fundamental modifications of temperate coastal ecosystems could be in progress." [Hiroya Yamano, Kaoru Sugihara, Keiichi Nomura 2011: Geophysical Research Letters]

Missing News: Kilimanjaro

Via Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.:
New Study “Land Use Change Impacts On Regional Climate Over Kilimanjaro” By Fairman Jr. Et Al 2011
There is a new paper which addresses an interesting question on the role of land use/land cover change in the vicinity of Mount Kilimanjaro on the climate in this region. The paper is

Fairman, J. G., Jr., U. S. Nair, S. A. Christopher, and T. Mölg (2011), Land use change impacts on regional climate over Kilimanjaro, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D03110, doi:10.1029/2010JD014712

What, CO2 not to blame!

Missing Views: Judith Curry II

ABC yet to interview climate scientist Prof. Judith Curry. We thought her latest post might be of interest, it's called Hiding the decline.
Here's an extract:

Bad science and/or dishonesty?

There is no question that the diagrams and accompanying text in the IPCC TAR, AR4 and WMO 1999 are misleading.  I was misled.  Upon considering the material presented in these reports, it did not occur to me that recent paleo data was not consistent with the historical record.  The one statement in AR4 (put in after McIntyre’s insistence as a reviewer) that mentions the divergence problem is weak tea.

I don’t want to throw the baby away with the bath water here.  But this whole issue is a big problem for the science and has been an enormous black eye for the credibility of the IPCC and climate science.   I suspect that many denizens will be on board with my assessment and are very familiar with McIntyre’s analysis.  I would be particularly interested in hearing from any defenders of these global paleotemperature analyses by Mann et al.