Then you have Garth George (and on one occasion, Fran O) given a platform to bang away about what nonsense global warming is, without really having any idea what he's talking about.

If the paper's business section was as loose with the facts as that, there'd be hell to pay.

The Herald's business pages don't necessarily bother with facts when it comes to climate science. They published a lengthy column from Bryan Leyland earlier this year in which he listed the familiar deniers' litany in support of his assertion that the science of anthropogenic global warming is highly unreliable. They didn't publish a letter which I submitted pointing out that every item in his list has been comprehensively examined and rejected by those doing the science. And although Fran O'Sullivan is more careful these days in what she says about the science of global warming on the business pages she tends to treat it as self-evident that the government's strategy is needlessly ambitious - which to my mind looks like a lack of awareness of what the science is saying. Not that she is alone among journalists in that.