Washington Post's photo phraud – it's deja vu all over again

Junkscience.com reports this is what the print copy looks like today for this article by Eugene Robinson. Note what looks like black unfiltered pollutants spewing skyward:

WaPo Photo Fraud

But when you look at the original photo, you notice something different:

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The caption reads:

Silhouetted against the sky at dusk, excess steam, along with non-scrubbed pollutants, spew from the smokestacks at Westar Energy’s Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant near St. Marys, Kansas. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

Here is what the stacks look like in broad daylight – steam:

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Apparently, WaPo hasn’t learned a damn thing since  we last called them out for using this very same photo and had readers send complaints to their omubudsman. See:

The Washington Post Eilperin emissions trick

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deepred
May 30, 2013 9:27 am

But…but steam is water vapor which is a worse greenhouse gas then CO2. OOOOOH NOOOOO!