A brief note in honour of Lloydie of the Amazon ...

This one writes itself and is strictly for the reptile record ... they were off and racing some time ago, and Lloydie of the Amazon was in the lead ...

The pond began by reading this story last Friday in the Graudian ...Scientific journal retracts article that claimed no evidence of climate crisis ...

The pond can remember running it. The pond can also remember reading the story behind that link, Sky News Australia is a global hub for climate misinformation, report says ...

Lovely Rita, meter maid, was at the head of the pack, together with the parrot, though the parrot has had his beak trimmed of late ...

...In one example, a tweet from Canadian climate science denier Patrick Moore – retweeted 16,000 times – promoted a Sky News Australia segment where former host Alan Jones described youth climate activists as “selfish, badly educated virtue-signalling little turds”.
Most segments, which are routinely edited into shareable videos, stem from Sky News Australia’s “after dark” shows.
Rita Panahi, a Sky News Australia host, is identified in the report as a “key amplifier” alongside other figures from around the world.
The analysis showed that before 2017, Sky News Australia posted an average 25 tweets a month on climate-related issues. But they now publish an average of more than 100 posts a month, with peaks of up to 300 a month.

Sky News after dark is thankfully outside the pond's remit, but back in the day, Lloydie of the Amazon showed that the lizard Oz was no slouch in the denialist game ... 

He's the uncritical one mentioned in that first Graudian gobbet, leading to the way with disinformation, misinformation, misrepresentation and the usual tripe ...

This kind of reporting is like water drip torture. Incessant, repetitive, never ending and never corrected ...

You have to revert to the Graudian to do a catch up ...

Meanwhile, back in the day, Lloydie was going his own merry way up the Amazon, sowing doubt and confusion and eager not to ask any tricky questions ...

It all sounded so concrete, so plausible, so informed, so reliably lizard Oz, so Lloydie ... and yet ...

What a kind prof that prof Sherwood is ... and that's exactly the sort of mealy mouthed kindly response that the lizards of Oz exploit. They always rush to judgement, they're always the first out of the blocks to promote anything that hints climate science is a religious cult.

The Graudian has asked the reptiles of the lizard Oz for a comment? Good luck with that. 

The reptiles have promised a full retraction in as prominent a space as was given to the original Lloydie outing? Lordy lordy, was that a cow that just flew over the moon ... or is Edward Lear doing climate science for the lizard Oz these days?

The pond regrets that it featured Lloydie of the Amazon way back on the 17th September 2022 peddling this tripe, In which the pond dallied with Lloydie... though in the pond's defence, it did run a note on the loons involved ...

There it was, still up, still with a snap of caked mud, still wrong, still unretracted or amended, or with the slightest hint of remorse or regret  ... but when you're a climate science denialist, what need of regret?

Note the token line noting that something might be happening, but Lloydie doesn't know what it is. That's how Lloydie routinely attempts to salve his conscience ... introduce a little bit more ambiguity and uncertainty ... we need to reduce our vulnerability and increase our resiliency, even if there's nothing happening ...

Stupid reptiles, stupid lizard Oz subscribers, stupid planet, stupid pond for recycling the tripe, stupid Lloydie, as if a gesture in the Amazon is any match for the harm he does routinely in the lizard Oz ...