Topic: Newsmax
A March 19 NewsMax article bites on the same press release that Noel Sheppard did about Lord Monckton's debate challenge to Al Gore. But unlike Sheppard, somebody at NewsMax made the effort to go beyond the press release. It's biased, of course, but at least the effort was made.
NewsMax repeats Monckton's claim, originally made in his London Telegraph article -- NewsMax reported on it last November, and it's where its non-press release stuff comes from -- challenging an apparent claim in a 2001 United Nations, changed from a 1996 report, that there was no "warm period" during the Middle Ages. But as George Monbiot reported in the Observer, Monckton was comparing apples and oranges: the graph in the U.N. report Monckton criticized measured global temperatures, while Monckton was citing European temperatures.
Monbiot, by the way, calls Monckton's article "a mixture of cherry-picking, downright misrepresentation and pseudo-scientific gibberish," adding, "There is scarcely a line in Lord Monckton's paper which is not wildly wrong." NewsMax didn't note that, just as Sheppard didn't.
