Forbes Publishes Fiction on Climate Change Debate

TruthOut, Forbes, FAIR by Jim Naureckas | Dec. 14, 2009 (News Analysis)

Needless to say, someone who is unable to correctly report what a book says is unlikely to be able to perform the much more complicated task of independently analyzing climate data and pointing out where all those scientists went wrong. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Dec 16, 2009 - 1:35 AM PST
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 by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 16, 2009

FAIR here does a fair job of investigative reporting and finds Forbes indulging in bad journalism.

The FAIR story in the link debunks some denier disinformation that seems to still have legs on the web.

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