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Bug #30327 
Cosmic Error on Breitbart's Big Government blog
This bug appeared in a news report published by Biggovernment.com on Sep 6, 2011 by Chriss W. Street.
View the original news report.
Bug Type: Simple Factual Error
Capping the lede of a piece claiming that a new climate paper undoes basic greenhouse theory is a damning quote from "one of the report's authors," Jyrki Kauppinen. The problem is he's not one of the paper's 63 authors:
- Jasper Kirkby,
- Joachim Curtius,
- João Almeida,
- Eimear Dunne,
- Jonathan Duplissy,
- Sebastian Ehrhart,
- Alessandro Franchin,
- Stéphanie Gagné,
- Luisa Ickes,
- Andreas Kürten,
- Agnieszka Kupc,
- Axel Metzger,
- Francesco Riccobono,
- Linda Rondo,
- Siegfried Schobesberger,
- Georgios Tsagkogeorgas,
- Daniela Wimmer,
- Antonio Amorim,
- Federico Bianchi,
- Martin Breitenlechner,
- André David,
- Josef Dommen,
- Andrew Downard,
- Mikael Ehn,
- Richard C. Flagan,
- Stefan Haider,
- Armin Hansel,
- Daniel Hauser,
- Werner Jud,
- Heikki Junninen,
- Fabian Kreissl,
- Alexander Kvashin,
- Ari Laaksonen,
- Katrianne Lehtipalo,
- Jorge Lima,
- Edward R. Lovejoy,
- Vladimir Makhmutov,
- Serge Mathot,
- Jyri Mikkilä,
- Pierre Minginette,
- Sandra Mogo,
- Tuomo Nieminen,
- Antti Onnela,
- Paulo Pereira,
- Tuukka Petäjä,
- Ralf Schnitzhofer,
- John H. Seinfeld,
- Mikko Sipilä,
- Yuri Stozhkov,
- Frank Stratmann,
- Antonio Tomé,
- Joonas Vanhanen,
- Yrjo Viisanen,
- Aron Vrtala,
- Paul E. Wagner,
- Hansueli Walther,
- Ernest Weingartner,
- Heike Wex,
- Paul M. Winkler,
- Kenneth S. Carslaw,
- Douglas R. Worsnop,
- Urs Baltensperger
- & Markku Kulmala
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Thanks for filing this report. We've informed the site about this bug using the contact form at Breitbart.com, which runs BigGovernment.com. We'll keep you posted as to any response.
Interestingly, Breitbart.com is using the Fogbugz bug tracker for its feedback. We filed a notice but find that it's marked "Closed" without explanation.
https://breitbart.fogbugz.com/default.asp?69793_goveg4vtu5mm6vr9
We have sent another request for a response.
Wait, now it's marked open again!
Additional attempts to reach Breitbart and the writer, Chriss W. Street, met with no response. On Monday I wrote about the case for Mother Jones:
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/breitbart-error-global-warming
That prompted BigGovernment.com to add an editor's note to the piece. Details here:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/09/andrew-breitbart-global-warming-blunder