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My view is that AR5 is going to stillborn, mainly because it is already outdated by new science that won’t be included.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:
Tar and Feathers…… for the whole lot or Putin for President.
Well, now we know. What begins with sex, drugs and rock n roll must end with forging an international consensus to control all economic activity on the planet.
ref: “In a more rational world, of course, we wouldn’t need any more IPCC assessments. We would have listened to the scientists, built a global consensus and forged international agreements to reduce carbon pollution and head off the risk of climate catastrophe.”
“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:”
This is typical left-wing MSM media stuff. Change the story after you’ve been found to be a fool, and tell no one. I would expect no less from the left wingers working at “Rolling Stone”…
I don’t know what possessed you to think these people would play fair,but I hope you learned your lesson, they will never play fair,s o don’t play with them.
I’ll never purchase a Rolling Stone again, nor even peek at their website, since that might benefit them via advertising. What lowlife.
What right? What rights? Is that what you meant … or no?
Oh – maybe you meant: You’re right. That has an ENTIRELY different meaning as in: “You are right.” … no?
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Jim….. yes , I meant “you are right” . I am really pissed at his comment.
Didn’t we call these people “low information” ? Like the girl with her science degree who questioned the source of one of the major temperature sets.
Is that oil based clothing Jeff is wearing?
For a magnificent collection of pictures of steaming cooling towers at sunset framed against a burnt orange sky, just do a Google images search for “Carbon Pollution”. No wonder lazy journo’s are forever publishing pictures of cooling towers when they write about CO2.
I doubt if Goodell knows how a power plant runs, more or less knows what comes out of those stacks.
Thanks Anthony, you’ve helped me realize that I’m so far ahead of my time that I’ve never read anything in Rolling Stone, starting from before it even existed!.
Sadly, I wouldn’t doubt fully half of the glue-sniffers reading that printed format of human excrement live here in the Pacific Northwest. How I grew up here and didn’t fall prey to their ‘non-conformist’ groupthink is beyond me. Probably my dad. Bless that man.
It really makes sense that the former-counterculture troglodytes are now acting this way. They seized power through the leftist corners of media and universities to become ‘the culture’. To foster the free thought that got them there would only oust them from power and they don’t seem to find humor in irony. As was astutely pointed out above, and many times before, this is their religion; as they themselves brag, nature is their church.
BTW, been reading for years, but my first post! I’m fighting against the (very precedented) tide up here, Anthony. Keep up the great work! You give me hope!
Anthony you’re looking at this all wrong, boomers, zoomers and doomers will Google and find your site, this is a positive! They come here looking for right wing deniers and find a multi dimensional community discussing climate science including CAGW believers, all respectfully listened too and not censored for their views. Just the facts, ..the truth.
You miss judged RS as a credible rag, they lost their credibility for music YEARS ago, and I am music fanatic and a musician in his fifties who used to love the rag.
They have become to music what National Geographic has become to science.
Irrelevant.
+1 for more traffic coming through! 😉
” jeremyp99 says: September 12, 2013 at 2:11 pm
OT. When I were a lad, R & B meant Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf. WTF is it now? ”
Aloe Blacc is pretty good R&B soul type.
Anthony, on the bright side I’m thinking that your use of “stillborn” will indeed garner you great kudos from Planned Parenthood! They “like that kind of thing”.
h/t fbo Rolling Stone: Ojays – “I love Music”
Considering the number of comments I had to view before I got to the comment form, I am willing to wager than Anthony got more comments on the Goodell article than Goodell will.
“TRM says:
September 12, 2013 at 9:39 pm”
Yeah, Aloe Blacc sounds pretty good alright. I’ve been thinking that the Blues is still out there, but that I just haven’t seen it. Thanks! You Tube also looks like a gold mine to me. Be sure to not tell anyone, but you can download the gold and convert it to MP3. Monckton is also heavy into putting up real science on You Tube and defending it there. He must never sleep.
Mike Macguire asks: “…would we expect President Obama to come out before his 2nd term is up and announce that the latest data suggests we should not act so hastily?”
Well I don’t know. He appears quite adept at jumping around red lines in the sand with Syria.
the guys a paid to lie , its hardly a surprise to find that is what his done in this article
I wasn’t really calling for people to be [snip], it is just an expression of speech!
This whole thing can be summed up thus:
Their logo says “Rotting Stone” to me.
Anthony, I thought you were overensitive on this but then I saw his twitter and decided to read the article. One thing is the article (bad enough with its denier meme and) and the twitter was a spit in the face but receiving this after being nice and helpful and forthcoming! Not to say you had some doubts about his good faith before you put in the effort. Good reply by the way, to bad he didn’t read past the first line.
But never blame yourself for doing the right thing though, some time it’s a 100% waste but in the long term the high ground is the place to be, leave the mud to Goodell.