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"Photoshopping the climate change report for better impact"

By: StinkyJournalism.org Staff
September 05, 2008 12:00 AM EST
 
"Photoshopping the climate change report for better impact"
 
The draft report for Global Climate Change Impacts uses a photo to illustrate the horror of home damage for dramatic effect...the problem is it is a photoshopped stock image found at iStockphoto. The disclosure reads: "Photo of house under several feet of graphically-rendered flood waters."
 

Anthony Watts, WattsUpWithThat and Climate Audit, said:

" Last week on Friday August 1st you may recall that I commented on the release of the Draft report Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States ...One of those graphics that tug at your heartstrings turns out to be a fabrication, pure and simple. Here is page 58 of the NCDC authored report "...» full story 

 See also: Climate Audit, by Steve McIntyre. » more

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