Sunday 14 February 2010

Climate Change report errors and Tiger Woods

You'll be aware the EU Referendum site has been somewhat neglecting its coverage of EU issues, such as US President's Obama's snubbing of the annual EU meeting cos no one was sure which European Union President has primacy and the whole Greek bailout thing. Instead EU Referendum's Richard North has been concentrating on mercilessly tearing climate change to shreds.

You'll also be aware of EU Referendum's Tiger Woods index, its a gauge of public interest in a news story, and calculated as the number of google web results divided by the number of google news results.

Here's a wee table of the various errors and issues in the current Climate Change debate with their Tiger Woods index today.

Issue
Google web results
Google news results
Tiger Woods Index
Glaciergate
242,000
221
1,095
Droughtgate
3,770
3
1,257
Netherlands sea level
258,000
173
1,491
Africagate
36,400
15
2,427
Chinese Urban Heat Island
169,000
33
5,121
Losses from disasters
445,000
65
6,846
Climategate
14,600,000
1,801
8,107
1.3 billion agriculture employees
176,000
0
n/a
Antarctic boot cleaning manual
84100
2
42,050






Thrilling stuff, I'm sure you'll agree.

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