http://climateprogress.org/2009/12/06/clark-hoyt-new-york-times-public-editor-on-climategate/#comment-225089
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I promise this is my last post on this, promise!
1. Deep Thought: Andy Revkin is auditioning for Lou Dobb’s old show?
2. At the start of the article Revkin/Broder write:
“The debate, set off by the circulation of several thousand files and e-mail messages stolen from one of the world’s foremost climate research institutes, has led some who oppose limits on greenhouse gas emissions, and at least one influential country, Saudi Arabia, to question the scientific basis for the Copenhagen talks.
The uproar has threatened to complicate a multiyear diplomatic effort…”
HOW DOES THE SECOND [GRAF] FOLLOW FROM THE FIRST????
WHO OF CONSEQUENCE IS IT COMPLICATING THINGS FOR ANDY????
He does us the kindness of answering that in the next graph: NOBODY…
“In recent days, an array of scientists and policy makers have said that nothing so far disclosed — the correspondence and documents include references by prominent climate scientists to deleting potentially embarrassing e-mail messages, keeping papers by competing scientists from publication and making adjustments in research data — undercuts decades of peer-reviewed science.”
But our Revkin can’t help himself and goes on!!!!
“Yet the intensity of the response highlights that skepticism about global warming persists, even as many scientists thought the battle over the reality of human-driven climate change was finally behind them.
On dozens of Web sites and blogs, skeptics and foes of greenhouse gas restrictions take daily aim at the scientific arguments for human-driven climate change.”
THIS IS FOX NEWS COVERAGE!!!
Last thought: WHY IS THE NY TIMES ALLOWING ITSELF TO BE USED BY THE CORPORATE CRIMINALS BEHIND THE EMAIL HACKING BY SUBVERTING THE STORYLINE????
The NY Times institutional memory is about as short as the average american’s it appears. The entire mast head deserves a Walter Duranty Waward for this sordid affair!
i’m done…..
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I also stopped reading Dot Earth long ago – but we’re talking about A1, the biggest print megaphone in America
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Good god – Revkin has an A1 story that concludes (in a perfect summary of this absurd article):
“Whichever view prevails, the questions will undoubtedly linger well after the negotiators who are trying to work out the complex issues that still stand in the way of an international climate treaty leave Copenhagen.”
EARTH TO REVKIN: QUESTIONS STILL LINGER FOR MANY ABOUT EVOLUTION, GRAVITY and OBAMA’S PLACE OF BIRTH – BECAUSE IT IS SO, DOESN’T MAKE IT NEWS!
This article is a beautiful exposition of everything that is wrong with Revkin’s reporting:
1. conferring on skeptics an unearned level legitimacy
2. understatement of range of catastrophic outcomes
3. quoting absolutely compromised “authorities” like Pielke Jr. & company.
4. providing no quotes from climate science leaders.
5. resulting in another horse-race article of ZERO news value
6. resulting in more UNWARRANTED CONFUSION on the issue – instead of the growing clarity that reflects reality.
Thanks Andy!
(apologies to Broder for not blaming you – give me more examples of this garbage and i’ll take a shot.)