The Australian publishes deliberate misuse of scientific data GreensBlog April 23, 2008 by Tim Hollo - "Those of you who might still read The Australian would have seen that they splashed on their opinions page and in the news pages today the claims of Phil Chapman, Australia's first astronaut, that climate change is bunkum and an ice age cometh.
Apparently global warming has stopped, we are now cooling, and it's all down to sunspot activity.

The story might be worthy of consideration were it not for the fact that it is based on a completely inexcusable misuse of scientific data.
………………………………Chapman's claim takes the weather vs climate confusion a step further. Instead of comparing trends, or even yearly averages, he is comparing January 2007, one of the hottest months on record, with January 2008, 0.7C cooler and one of the coolest Januaries in recent years thanks to La Nina. This comparison has about as much bearing on climate science as whether this Monday happened to be cooler than last Monday ………
……………….To the second point, Chapman's misuse of the data was deliberately calculated to disguise that fact that all four of the respected bodies he cites concluded that, far from being "exceptionally cold", 2007 was the equal second or third hottest year on record around the globe.

.........................................The real question is, why does The Australian continue to publish this stuff which a basic fact check would show to be not only wrong but a deliberate falsification of science? .........................................."