John Wilkins has already told the story with pictures, but I had to post this picture I took at Watson's Bay:
What's that on the ground?
Have a closer look:
It's a paper published by the Australian division of the Larouchites declaring that Global Warming is a fraud. Mooney already had a copy because one had been slipped under his door at his hotel in Melbourne where the science writers conference was.
It's hard to make out in the picture, but the graph under the headline is Beck's nonsensical claims that CO2 fluctuated wildly before we started taking the most accurate measurements. And that the fluctuations stopped exactly when the accurate measurements started.
Incidently, Mooney has an op-ed in today's Sydney Morning Herald
Ah, music to an accountants ears! All you need to do is make accurate measurements and all your problems will be solved. That's what developing countries need ... more accountants!
You litterbug.