Newspaper Article

Phony global warming 'certainty'

2009

Overview

Concerning those predictions, The New York Times was -- as it is today in a contrary crusade -- a megaphone for the alarmed, as when (May 21, 1975) it reported that \"a major cooling of the climate\" was \"widely considered inevitable\" because it was \"well established\" that the Northern Hemisphere's climate \"has been getting cooler since about 1950.\" Now the Times, a trumpet that never sounds retreat in today's war against warming, has afforded this column an opportunity to revisit another facet of this subject -- meretricious journalism in the service of dubious certitudes. Which returns us to [Andrew Revkin]. In a story ostensibly about journalism, he simply asserts -- how does he know this? -- that the last decade, which passed without warming, was just \"a pause in warming.\" His attempt to contact this writer was an e-mail sent at 5:47 p.m., a few hours before the Times began printing his story, which was not so time-sensitive -- it concerned controversies already many days running -- that it had to appear the next day. But Revkin reported that \"experts said\" this columnist's intervention in the climate debate was \"riddled with\" inaccuracies. Revkin's supposed experts might exist and might have expertise, but they do not have names that Revkin wished to divulge.

• Publisher: Chattanooga Times Free Press
• Subject: Revkin, Andrew