Dr Karl does it again. Time for the Alan Jones treatment Last week I noted a howler from Dr Karl: I went on: ...Dr Karl, debating the figures of Britain's Met, asserts the world has warmed 0.3 degrees in 16 years - which still isn't that much, actually. The rest of that post is here. Well, I'd hoped that Dr Karl would admit and apologise for his clear error. I certainly thought he wouldn't brazenly repeat it. But yesterday reader Paul alerted me to Dr Karl's latest effort: We're in country SA and Dr Karl has just repeated his 0.3 degree error on local ABC radio. The caller gave him every opportunity to admit he made a mistake, but he restated that figure boldly and with no hesitation. The station is 1062 ABC Riverland. A listener knows the facts, but Dr Karl does not. Strikes me the ABC had the wrong person behind the microphone. But here is a chance for the Australian Communications and Media Authority to finally prove it will punish warmists as much as it punishes sceptics for mistakes made in discussing global warming. I have had my doubts: [Two years ago], Sydney broadcaster Alan Jones said something about global warming that wasn't accurate - and for which he's now viciously punished. No, he didn't falsely claim "even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and river systems." That was Chief Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery in 2007. No, he didn't say "it may be time to stop describing southeastern Australia as gripped by drought and instead accept the extreme dry as permanent." That was the Bureau of Meteorology's head of climate analysis, David Jones, in 2008, just before this "permanent" drought broke and dams filled... Jones also didn't wrongly claim the seas could rise 100 metres this century (ABC science presenter Robyn Williams), we've "seen an increase in the number of cyclones" (Flannery again), the Himalaya glaciers could melt away by 2035 (IPCC), carbon dioxide is actually "carbon" (every government MP) or a thousand other false claims or wild exaggerations peddled in the media without a blush. What he said was this: Australians produced just "1 per cent of .001 per cent of carbon dioxide in the air." Gotcha! Global warmists never forgive in a sceptic an error of the kind they overlook every week in an alarmist. For them, it seems, telling porkies in a good cause is evidence of a good heart, while a sceptic's mistake is proof of evil - and must be punished. So Jones was pilloried in the Fairfax press, sponsors of Earth Hour, and by the ABC, guardian of the global warming faith. Didn't he know Australians put out more like 0.45 per cent of the carbon dioxide up there? Far more sinister, he was reported to the Australian Communications and Media Authority, which last week ordered he undergo "factual accuracy" training and use fact-checkers. Like some trainee journalist just out of school. This, I suspect, was a deliberate humiliation that no Flannery of the airwaves will ever be made to suffer by any government-backed authority. Jones, after all, was wrong in the wrong cause. Think I exaggerate? Then let ACMA, Media Watch, the ABC and the rest of them prove me wrong. There is Dr Karl. Do now to him what you did to Jones. (I do not approve of calling in the speech police to settle an argument. But in this case I am interested not in punishing Dr Karl but in testing the institutional bias of those speech police towards warmists. For that reason, a complaint to ACMA and the ABC could prove very instructive. Why not complain to the Press Council about Dr Karl's tweet, too?)