Category Archives: Climate Change

NYT Applauds Cassandra, but Isn't Taking Her Calls on Climate Change

Posted on 04/19/2010 by Jim Naureckas

I find it very peculiar that the New York Times can publish an editorial observer piece about unheeded warnings–"Cassandra, the Ignored Prophet of Doom, Is a Woman for Our Times," by Adam Cohen (4/19/10)–without once mentioning climate change. The piece … Continue reading →

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Blog: NYT Science Section Doubts Science on Climate Change

Posted on 03/17/2010 by Jim Naureckas

Via Climate Progress (3/16/10), Scientific American guest blogger John Horgan (3/16/10) makes a disturbing claim: Two sources at the Science Times section of the New York Times have told me that a majority of the section's editorial staff doubts that … Continue reading →

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OJ and Global Warming: Fossil Fuels Have Their Own Dream Team

Posted on 02/26/2010 by Jim Naureckas

Bill McKibben (TheNation.com, 2/25/10) has a good analogy that explains the success of global warming deniers: The campaign against climate science has been enormously clever, and enormously effective. It's worth trying to understand how they've done it. The best analogy, … Continue reading →

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WaPo Editorial Page: Watch What You Read!

Posted on 02/22/2010 by Peter Hart

From the paper's editorial today (2/22/10) on climate change deniers: The Earth is warming. A chief cause is the increase in greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere. Humans are at least in part responsible, because the oil, gas and coal … Continue reading →

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Dana Milbank, Snow and Climate Change

Posted on 02/16/2010 by Peter Hart

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank thinks it's pretty silly for Republicans and climate change deniers to say that the recent snowstorms mean that climate change is phony. BUT…. don't think for a second that Milbank's going to let "greens" off … Continue reading →

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NYT and Climate Change: It Gets Worse

Posted on 02/12/2010 by Peter Hart

On Tuesday, the New York Times (2/9/10) was front-paging a non-story about criticism of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change– hyping accusations about scientific misconduct and conflicts of interest that the paper itself called "half-truths" (FAIR Blog, 2/9/10). Well, it … Continue reading →

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NYT and the IPCC: Little Evidence, Big Story

Posted on 02/09/2010 by Peter Hart

Last month CJR blogger Curtis Brainard (1/29/10) complained that the media were not giving enough attention to some complaints–mostly from climate change deniers–about the 2007 IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change report and complaints about IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri. Jim Naureckas suggested … Continue reading →

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Journalists Examine Teapot Tempests as Real Glaciers Melt

Posted on 02/02/2010 by Jim Naureckas

Curtis Brainard of CJR's Observatory blog (1/29/10) complains about the lack of coverage of what he calls "Glaciergate": Almost two weeks ago, the Sunday Times, a British newspaper, "broke" the story that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had made … Continue reading →

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Calling Science 'the Left' Is Not Advocating for Science

Posted on 12/14/2009 by Jim Naureckas

New York Times' climate change reporter Andrew Revkin is taking a buyout from his employer after a tough year, the Columbia Journalism Review's website (12/14/09) reports. Revkin, whom CJR's Christine Russell describes as "one of the most influential and respected … Continue reading →

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Kurtz Covers for Post, Palin

Posted on 12/14/2009 by Peter Hart

The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz spends his Sunday mornings as the host of Reliable Sources, the media criticism show on CNN. Yesterday (12/13/09), one segment concerned the Washington Post's decision to print an op-ed (12/9/09) on "Climategate" by Sarah Palin. … Continue reading →

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Forbes Publishes Fiction on Climate Change Debate

Posted on 12/07/2009 by Jim Naureckas

Forbes.com has an article up called "The Fiction of Climate Science" (12/4/09). Thanks no doubt to a link from Drudge, it's currently one of the website's "top rated," "most popular" and "most emailed" items. "Fiction" is a polite word for … Continue reading →

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