SocraticGadfly: The NYT goes after IPCC, omits facts

February 09, 2010

The NYT goes after IPCC, omits facts

In a story headlined "Skeptics Find Fault With U.N. Climate Panel," the New York Times goes kind of hard after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and especially its head, Rajendra K. Pachauri.

But, it cites people who are more than just skeptics, like Roger Pielke Jr.:
“When I look at Dr. Pachauri’s case I see obvious and egregious problems,” said Dr. Roger A. Pielke Jr., a political scientist and professor of environmental science at the University of Colorado.
Nowhere in the story are we told that he is a member of a Nordhaus/Schellenberger think tank he mislabels as "progressive," or that he has disputed IPCC data, not just its interpretation, or that he's written for folks like Cato and the Washington Times, or that he's appeared on Fox News and skirted the edges of global warming denialism, or that he's said there's nothing we can or should realistically do to slow down or halt global warming.

That's your MSM for you, along with cuts in science writing staff.

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