Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell demonstrates what a biased journalist he is.
My first impression was to ignore the request for interview from Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell last week, after all, RS has pretty much blown what credibility they had after making a terrorist bomber a front page teen heartthrob.
But, I said to myself, “it’s my duty to reach people I might not ordinarily reach”. So, I responded in good faith. In exchange, I got slimed by Goodell.
Here’s the email exchange I had with him:
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thanks for this.
Jeff Goodell
Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone
518-xxx-xxxx
@jeffgoodell
My view is that AR5 is going to stillborn, mainly because it is already outdated by new science that won’t be included.
There have been 19 separate peer reviewed papers published in climate sensitivity to CO2 by 42 scientists since January 1, 2012 all describing a lower climate sensitivity.
There have been recent revelations in journals (Yu Kosaka & Shang-Ping Xie Nature 2013 and de Freitas &McLean, 2013 International Journal of Geosciences) that demonstrate ENSO (El Niño) in the Pacific is responsible for the 15 plus years of global warming slowdown known as “the pause”. These two papers strongly suggest natural variability is still the dominant climate control.
Then there is the lack of reality matching what the climate models tell us, such as this leaked graph from an AR5 draft:
Original from AR5 draft: http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/ipcc_ar5_draft_fig1-4_with.png
Annotated version: http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/ipcc-ar5draft-fig-1-4.gif
All this while global CO2 emissions have been growing steadily. The lack of temperature match to models, “the pause”, combined with these new ENSO findings tell us that global warming has gone from a planetary crisis to a minor problem in a Banana Republic where only a few vocal science rebels are arguing for immediate intervention.
The costs of mitigating the perceived problem are also staggering compared to the benefit, as the 50:1 project demonstrates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw5Lda06iK0
best regards,
Anthony Watts
Editor, WUWT
530-xxx-xxxx
—–Original Message—– From: Jeff Goodell
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 10:41 AM
To: awatts@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Rolling Stone inquiry
Name: Jeff Goodell
Email: jeffgoodell@xxxxx.xxx
Message: Hi Anthony
I’m a writer for Rolling Stone, working on piece about upcoming IPCC report. I’m checking in with a few people to get their views on how they think it will be received. Thoughts?
Thanks
Jeff
Time: September 3, 2013 at 10:41 am
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And what did I get for my effort? A single word. Here is the paragraph where I appear:
But, of course, this is nothing new. In 2007, when the IPCC released its Fourth Assessment Report, it was also nearly certain that human activity was heating up the planet, with grave consequences for our future well-being. And six years before that, when the IPCC released its Third Assessment, scientists were pretty certain about it too. But phrases like “high confidence” in warming do not, to the unscientific ear, inspire high confidence in the report’s finding, since they imply the existence of doubt, no matter how slight. And in the climate wars, “Doubt is what deniers thrive on and exploit,” says Bob Watson, who was head of the IPCC from 1997 to 2002. The final report has not even been released yet, and already prominent bloggers in the denial-sphere, like Anthony Watts, are calling it “stillborn.“
(added) What is most galling, is that Goodell asked me for my opinion prior the release of the IPCC AR5 report, then chastises me in his article for giving it. Whatta guy. (/end add)
Meanwhile, full quotes exist in the article from Naomi Oreskes, Rajendra Pachauri, Bob Watson, Anthony Leiserowitz, Ben Santer, blogger Joe Romm, and last but not least the anonymous tweeting person(s) behind Organizing for Action, the successor of President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.
Besides giving liberal use of the word “denier” in the most derogatory way possible, the article also mentions “Why the City of Miami is Doomed to Drown“. Where he fantasizes about the year 2030.
Read it all here: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warming-is-very-real-20130912?print=true
I suppose it’s par for the course from people that can’t tell the difference between water vapor from cooling towers and “carbon emissions”.
The stupid, it burns! http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-denier-elite-20130912
My single word with a “denier” label to my name is what I get for talking to “The Delinquent Teenager” crowd as if they were adults I suppose. I suggest that anyone who encounters Jeff Goodell in any future interview request, simply not respond – he’s shamelessly biased, fine with hatefully labeling people he doesn’t agree with, runs in the company of fools that can’t tell pollution from non-pollution, and now proven himself to be not worth the effort.
UPDATE: Shortly after I wrote this article, Goodell took notice on his Twitter feed, and shortly after that, the erroneous caption was replaced along with a different photo of the same power station in Germany, but with no explanation as to the error. Here’s what it looks like now:
R.S. has not been a credible source of music news & criticism for over 40 years, and it has never been reliable for news. But WUWT probably has more readers, so your decision was the right one – it gets word to more people about R.S.’s sub-adolescent stunts than R.S. gets to its readership of chronic adolescents.
And Goodell presumes to lecture about ” . . . the unscientific ear . . .”? Now that’s rich.
Gary says:
September 12, 2013 at 1:14 pm
From now it’s better to deflect all such requests from dubious sources to to your UCS spokesdog, Kenji.
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That’s a good idea.
When Jeffey asks, “Kenji, What will things be like for alarmists in the future?”
Kenji, “Ruff!”
cn
“Ain’t it hard when you discover that
He really wasn’t where it’s at
After he took from you everything he could steal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?”
From “Like a Rolling Stone”
Bob Dylan aka Robert Allen Zimmerman
MojoMojo says:
September 12, 2013 at 3:13 pm
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405?page=7
This article by Matt Tiabbi….
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Matt Tiabbi is the only thing worth reading in Rolling Stone. That is why I had his articles bookmarked and ready to hand.
The cutting edge of bong tube logic is all about a quick hit and a pretty picture..
Bang on the drum all day?
RS still thinks it is cool to pretend to believe in CAGW.
but i don’t agree with your take on the Tsarnaev cover, anthony. it was a shocking cover, but not for the reason u suggest. where is “alleged” before “bomber”? whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty in the US?
It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity.
JFD says…
There is no such thing as a ‘no recharge aquifer’. Stop trying to blow out of your butt and up ours.
GeneDoc says: @ur momisugly September 12, 2013 at 4:11 pm
….. I want to know who the puppet masters are?
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My take on it is a href=”http://chiefio.wordpress.com/t12/”>HERE. lots on economics politics and philosophy as well as CAGW at that site.
Sighh, I really miss preview.
GeneDoc, the URL is http://chiefio.wordpress.com/t12/
Anthony,
I can’t stop! You did’t get on the cover but even one derogatory word is such an achievement. As an old time rock and roll nut, I feel blessed to have even corresponded with someone of your status.
DR. HOOK
Cover Of The Rolling Stone Lyrics
Ha, ha, ha, I don’t believe it
Da, da, ah, ooh, don’t touch me
Hey, Ray!
Hey, Sugar!
Tell them who we are …
Well, we’re big rock singers
We’ve got golden fingers
And we’re loved everywhere we go (that sounds like us)
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
For ten-thousand dollars a show (right)
We take all kinds of pills that give us all kind of thrills
But the thrill we’ve never known
Is the thrill that’ll get ya when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone
Lyrics from eLyrics.net
Anthony, your efforts are appreciated. Even if it turned out to be pretty much just a water haul.
Didn’t someone famously call the rag Rollin’ Stoned?
John
Gary Pearse says:
September 12, 2013 at 4:17 pm
A clever ad… Send it to Cfact or Heartland. (has contact info.)
You do realise you went about things in entirely the wrong way? You should have gotten Annie Liebovitz to take a pic of you in the nuddie and put it on the cover of the mag. They’d have listened to you then. And if they didn’t, you could have started a David Cassidy-like career as a teen idol.
Just got to remember that Pop-stars are really terrorists- then its not shocking at all that he puts a killer on the front page.
Goodell is a “young green rebel” well past middle age.
The best punishment for such unreasonable behaviour would be to reveal his actual age at his Wikipedia article, where it is curiously overlooked.
‘Persecution of non-believers has been popular for centuries. Belief and denial are the words of zealots, not scientists.’
Though not a scientist, at least author Jeff Goodell can now tell the difference between water vapor from cooling towers & “carbon emissions” (after this sites ‘eSteamed’ author prompted Rolling Stone to change their misleading caption on the lead picture!)
Goes to the point that many are unable to distinguish between science and non-science, leaving them vulnerable to the emotional appeal of human caused global warming…warming that stopped some 15-17 years ago…
http://climatism.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/nature-study-confirms-global-warming-stopped-15-years-ago/
So this RS ‘scientific’ article is in the POLITICS section?
Surely you could put everything in RS in that section.
So this ‘scientific’ article is in the POLITICS section?
He who laughs last, laughs best.
They don’t even understand how wrong they are right now. You can’t fix non-objective people. They just are the way they are and there is nothing you can do about it.
Flats temps, nothing happening, the last refuge they had Arctic sea ice is up 50% this year. The Earth has not even sneezed with a 50% increase in the GHG/ALL forcing. And the Unicorns have not come back yet either.
Generally, people are not dumb. The media that feeds them lies eventually dies.
Oops, just moments ago Dan I got this message when clicking on that link: “This video does not exist”. Do you have another? I linked the version I did on account of all the covers of The Rolling Stone they showed …
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Oh – I see the 2nd link now Dan …
Having read the RS coverage of the candidates in 2008 I am surprised that you would expect anything else from one of it’s hacks. They are supporting the Obama agenda (whatever it might happen to be at the moment). At this moment it is about fighting the evil deniers of climate change. RS went looking for an evil denier and you saved him the effort of googling skeptical statements.
Your heart was in the right place but your brain was on the fritz.
Geez, Dan! In that performance did they even get through the entire song?
That circulation number looks very low compared to the readership number. And to its circulation in its glory days. And the cover price looks daunting. (But if it’s real, no wonder its circulation is so low.)