2GB's Alan Jones had not taken enough care over IPCC statements

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adio station 2GB and its outspoken breakfast host Alan Jones breached broadcasting rules over statements made by Jones about climate change in 2013, the media watchdog has ruled.

Alan Jones - he had not
 taken enough care to make
 accurate statements
 about the IPCC.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority found that Jones had not taken enough care to make accurate statements about a leaked Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, while an attempted correction by the radio host was “not adequate and appropriate in all the circumstances and so did not cure the breach.”

In September 2013, Jones told his listeners: “What has been leaked tells us the report will admit that its computer drastically overestimated rising temperatures and over the past 60 years the world in fact has been warming at half the rate claimed in the previous IPCC report in 2007.”

Read the Guardian story - “Alan Jones broke broadcast rules with climate change attack – watchdog”.