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North Coast Voices has been noting his biased, inaccurate & frequently irrational opinions since December 2008.
This was the fall-out from one of his articles published nine months ago.
The
Guardian, 24 July 2020:
An
op-ed by Prof Ian Plimer in the Australian, which was condemned as
blatantly false by climate scientists, has been found to have
breached
standards by the Australian Press Council. In November, his
column titled “Let’s
not pollute minds with carbon fears” argued that there “are
no carbon emissions. If there were, we could not see because most
carbon is black. Such terms are deliberately misleading, as are many
claims.”
The
article also referred to the “fraudulent changing of past weather
records” and “unsubstantiated claims polar ice is melting”, as
well as “the ignoring of data that shows Pacific islands and the
Maldives are growing rather than being inundated”.
Despite
a chorus
of criticism at the time, the former editor John Lehmann defended
Plimer’s article, saying “his voice is one of many which are
important in the mix”.
In
a lengthy adjudication the Oz was forced
to publish on page two on Friday, the press council said the
article contained inaccurate and misleading material in its claims
that the Bureau of Meteorology had fraudulently changed weather
records and that Plimer’s claims that there was no evidence polar
ice was melting were misleading.
The
newspaper
breached two of the general principles of reporting: ensuring
factual material is accurate (principle 1) and ensuring facts are
presented with reasonable fairness and balance and opinion is based
on fact (principle 3).
The
council found that while it would have preferred Plimer’s links to
the mining industry were disclosed in the column, the Australian did
not breach guidelines in not disclosing because Plimer’s “past or
present directorships of mining companies and advocacy in the debate
around climate change were so well known” that it was not required.
Plimer
is a professor of geology and well-known climate change denier who
has served as a director of a number of mining firms, including Gina
Rinehart’s Roy Hill Holdings and Queensland Coal Investments.
In
reviewing the article last November, University of New South Wales
professor Katrin Meissner wrote: “This article is an impressive
collation of the well known, scientifically wrong, and overused
denier arguments. It is ideologically motivated and, frankly, utter
nonsense.”….
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