The scientific paper behind the newspaper claims that insect populations were threatened with extinction was based on data known to be unreliable.
That’s according to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which today called for the paper to be withdrawn.
The paper, by US scientists Bradford C Lister and Andres Garcia, claimed that a rapid decline in insect populations in a rainforest in Puerto Rico was the result of rising temperatures.
The Washington Post called the study “hyper-alarming”, while the Guardian discussed climate change causing “insect collapse”.
However, the authors’ evidence that temperatures had, in fact, risen turns out to be based on a single weather station, which was known to be unreliable because of undocumented changes to equipment and location resulting in a substantial and abrupt increase in recorded temperatures in September 1992.
Since 1992, temperatures at this station have actually declined.
The Global Warming Policy Foundation has issued a formal complaint to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the journal that published the article, asking for the paper to be withdrawn.
Letter to the editor of PNAS (PDF)
If Lister and Garcia are scientists, John Dillinger was a banker.
Just two fake scientists the M.S. Media listens to and Parrots their lies their just in it for the Moola and Politics their just like Leonardo DiCaprio,Al Gore’ David Suzuki, Laurie David, the IPCC as well as those various Eco-Wacko Groups like Greenpeace,Sierra Club,NRDC ‘EDF,Friends of the Earth Etc and all those useful idiots taking part in the Climate Marches and Protests and the Eco-Freaks filing stupid lawsuits