And the same is true with global warming where BS or bad science is always waiting for the credulous ... especially on Alan Jones's top-rating radio program.

Alan Jones: Well this is a case of rubbish in, rubbish out. The latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report will be released this weekend. 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 ... — 2GB, The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 24th September, 2013

It's just like Groundhog Day isn't it?

Yes, it's rubbish in rubbish out all right.

Last Tuesday ... back from holiday ... Jones repeated the howler we highlighted on last week's program by reading out the mistaken front-page story from the Australian which claimed the IPCC had got it wrong on global warming ...

Alan Jones: The 2007 Assessment Report said the planet was warming at the rate of .2 of a degree centigrade every decade. Well, the update now says the true figure was .12, almost a 100% error. The IPCC for a week has been denying it's locked in crisis as they talk to scientists and don't know what to do about the fact that their former theories of climate change have been disproven. — 2GB, The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 24th September, 2013

In fact, of course, it was the Australian not the IPCC that had got it wrong and already corrected its mistake.

And Chris Smith, filling in for Jones on 2GB's breakfast programme, had already been caught repeating it.

But no one had told Alan, who was able to work himself into a fury over the hoax of global warming and claim it had led to the sacking of two quote "distinguished" Australians.

Professor Bob Carter from James Cook University in Townsville, and Murry Salby from Sydney's Macquarie University.

Who were dumped said Jones for refusing to toe the warmist line ...

Alan Jones: Difficult to believe this could happen in Australia. Outrageous behaviour handed out to outstanding scientists and academics which, as I've said many times, owes more to the reign of Vladimir Putin than you'd imagine to a democratic society like ours ... And as I said previously, we might need something akin to a Royal Commission into this totalitarian behaviour so the truth can be revealed and the United Nations socialist disease cured. — 2GB, The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 24th September, 2013

A Pigasus award for spouting nonsense must surely be coming Alan's way soon.

Both universities have denied that Carter and Salby departed as a result of their views.

But this sort of conspiracy is just what Jones and his listeners love.

As is the idea that the ABC is a party to this great global warming hoax as Jones calls it.

Alan Jones: Is this our ABC? Ruth: This is our ABC. Alan Jones: Are we funding this bias? Ruth: Yes we are Alan Jones: And we're funding this ignorance. Ruth: And it's a disgrace... Alan Jones: And we're funding this alarmism. And we're funding this alarmism. And we're funding these hoaxes. Well, Tony Abbott, they start mucking with Abbott and I tell you what, they'll come second. It's time Tony Abbott took a hot knife to this lot. — 2GB, The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 24th September, 2013

The immediate cause of Jones and caller Ruth's disgust last week was the appearance of environmental activist David Suzuki on Q&A the night before.

And we have to say we share a little of their concern.

The Canadian geneticist was given the podium to himself, in an honour previously granted only to Bill Gates and a handful of Australia's political leaders.

And even his supporters must have been disappointed.

Prof. Stewart Franks: In an opinion piece last week you wrote that the Great Barrier Reef was threatened by the increasing frequency of cyclones. Everyone watching and listening can go onto the Bureau of Meteorology's website and see that there's no increase, and in fact there's been a decline over the last 40 years and no increase in the severity. Are you not, by exaggerating, or even just getting it wrong, are you not actually vulnerable of actually undermining your very own aim in that you know, the Great Barrier Reef does have environmental threats, but cyclones ain't one of them. David Suzuki: All right, that was one, I have to admit, that that was suggested to me by an Australian and it is true, I mean, it may be a mistake, I don't know. — ABC1, Q&A, 23rd September, 2013

One of the program's first tweets celebrated the fact that Suzuki would not need to preface his remarks by admitting he was not a climate scientist.

But he was soon having to do just that.

David Suzuki: I'm not a climatologist. I wait for the climatologists to tell us what they're thinking. — ABC1, Q&A, 23rd September, 2013

He was also demonstrating he was not well briefed.

When challenged on the claim that global warming appears to have slowed or paused over the last 15 years Suzuki seemed somewhat surprised.

David Suzuki: Everyone is anticipating some kind of revelation in the next IPCC reports that are saying 'we got it wrong'. As far as I understand, we haven't. So where are you getting your information? — ABC1, Q&A, 23rd September, 2013

As his answer went to air, one of the ABC's fiercest critics, Andrew Bolt, was blogging from his couch.

Oh. My. God. David Suzuki on the very first question is revealed as a complete know-nothing. His questioner tells him that the main climate data sets show no real warming for some 15 years. Suzuki asks for the references, which he should have known if he knew anything of the science. — Heraldsun.com.au, 23rd September, 2013

So why was Suzuki given the stage all to himself if he is not a climatologist and is not across the subject?

Q&A's Peter McEvoy told Media Watch :

David Suzuki is well known as a campaigner for the significance of anthropogenic climate change and the need for a concerted response by governments. He expressed strong views on the subject after arriving in Australia and it seemed appropriate and indeed essential that he be questioned on his views. — Peter McEvoy, Executive Producer, Q&A, Response to Media Watch's questions, 27th September, 2013

And to be fair, Suzuki was questioned on a range of subjects, by a posse of professors who disagreed with him, like Stewart Franks from the University of Tasmania ...

Jim Dale from Queensland University of Technology ...

And Rick Roush from the Melbourne School of Land and Environment, who tackled Suzuki on his opposition to genetically modified foods ...

Prof Rick Roush: And to paraphrase and turn around the comment you made to Stewart earlier, you're running counter to the vast majority of scientists on this one. — ABC1, Q&A, 23rd September, 2013

No such interrogation greets climate sceptic Professor Bob Carter when Alan Jones gets him on to rubbish mainstream science.

All he finds is Alan desperate to agree with him ...

Bob Carter: Well, there's only two words you can use to describe it - it's a farce and it's a circus. Alan Jones: It is. Bob Carter: And the sad thing about it is ... Alan Jones: It's a lie. It's a lie. Bob Carter: Yes, and because of the way it is pushed as you say, in the education system and in the news media, so many well-intentioned people have been sucked in. — 2GB, The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 10th December, 2012

Nor did Alan Jones challenge that other famous climate sceptic, so-called Lord Monckton, when he had him on this morning to debunk the IPCC report released on Friday.

By this time Australia's newspapers had reported that the world's scientists were more certain than ever that man made global warming is making the Earth hotter and we need to take action.

But Jones listeners got quite a different story.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admitted on Friday their models were wrong. Well that's what Christopher Monckton said from Day One. But, there were times in this country where he couldn't get a university or a town hall in which to speak. On climate change this country owes more to Putin's Russia than it does to democracy. He's on the line from Edinburgh. Christopher Monckton, good morning. Monckton: I think that's the most outstanding introduction I've ever had. So all of your listeners Alan should be giving you an enormous round of applause. Congratulations. — 2GB, The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 30th September, 2013

Listening to Jones I sometimes wonder if there is a parallel universe and I've just landed in it.

In his preamble to the interview Jones repeated yet again the claim that the Australian and Britain's Mail on Sunday had already admitted was wrong.

What wasn't publicised over the weekend was that the IPCC's computers dramatically have overestimated rising temperatures and over the past 60 years the world has in fact been warming at half the rate claimed in the previous IPCC report in 2007. — 2GB, The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 30th September, 2013

Extraordinary, isn't it?

After getting his figures wildly wrong on global warming in 2011, Jones is now supposed to be extra careful with the facts in his editorials.

It's part of an agreement between 2GB and the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

But it does not seem to be working. And we believe the ACMA needs to do something about it.

And in the meantime, if his listeners want the truth, they should perhaps take Alan's own advice and reach for the button

Alan Jones: Turn the rubbish off. Ruth: Well let's see what Media Watch say next week. Alan Jones: Who? Who? Another biased, another biased ABC outfit. Give 'me a break. All rubbish. All rubbish. When you see rubbish put it in the bin, Ruth. Good onya, ok, bye, bye. — 2GB, The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 24th September, 2013

If only we could. If only we could.

But getting rid of Alan Jones might put us out of business.

And as always there's more on those stories on our website. But form now that's all from me. Goodbye.