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NYT Environmental Reporter Departs; Global Warming Unmentioned in Long Farewell
NewsBusters ^ | December 24, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 12/24/2009 8:03:21 AM PST by PJ-Comix

The New York Times environmental writer, Andrew Revkin, has left that newspaper this week. What made Revkin's departure interesting is that in his long farewell story published on Monday, he never once mentions global warming or climate change.

First a little background on Revkin's departure from the Times via the Columbia Journalism Review:

Andrew C. Revkin, one of the most influential and respected reporters on the environment, will take a buyout from The New York Times as part of the paper’s current round of budget cuts. His departure, after nearly fifteen years at the Times, is sure to leave a big hole in the publication’s coverage of climate change at a time when this controversial issue—and what to do about it—is at the top of the American and international agenda as never before. Revkin is currently on assignment covering the Copenhagen climate change summit and will step down from his staff reporting post next Monday after returning to New York.

Hmm... So if "climate change" (Newspeak for "global warming") is so important then why did Andrew Revkin NOT once mention it in his extended farewell? Let us analyze what he did talk about since it makes the absence of any mention of global warming all that much more glaring:

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: andrewrevkin; copenhagen; globalwarming; revkin
Is too much being read into Revkin neglecting to mention global warming in his very long goodbye note? Perhaps ClimateGate has had an effect on his prevously unquestioned belief in that dogma.
1 posted on 12/24/2009 8:03:27 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: Paul Heinzman; IMissPresidentReagan; AlexW; Cletus.D.Yokel; ConservativeOrBust; tropical; ...

PING!


2 posted on 12/24/2009 8:06:57 AM PST by PJ-Comix ("They spent a trillion dollars on a guess?" ---Astute DUmmie observation)
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To: PJ-Comix
Obviously Revkin has been thinking about leaving and taking a buyout for months...So he was careful about criticizing the global warming nutters otherwise he would not have gotten his new job at Pace University
3 posted on 12/24/2009 8:11:48 AM PST by dennisw
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To: bamahead; Normandy; SteamShovel; SolitaryMan; rdl6989; Darnright; According2RecentPollsAirIsGood; ..
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

4 posted on 12/24/2009 8:13:21 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Don't start the revolution without me.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Six me, my or mines and eleven usues of I in his brief statment. He doesn’t mention climate change or global warming because it’s always about themselves.


5 posted on 12/24/2009 8:15:53 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: dennisw

You got it Ollie!


6 posted on 12/24/2009 8:16:31 AM PST by StAntKnee (I keep thinking I'm gonna wake up from this dream theatre of the absurd.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Naw ClimateGate has just convienced him that “more creative communicators” need to be trained to be much more careful and stealthy with internal communications.


7 posted on 12/24/2009 8:17:27 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: StAntKnee

tiddly winks!


8 posted on 12/24/2009 8:17:53 AM PST by dennisw
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To: StAntKnee

“Never quit your old job until you line up your new job”


9 posted on 12/24/2009 8:19:38 AM PST by dennisw
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To: Scotsman will be Free

You’re definitely on to something...


10 posted on 12/24/2009 8:27:09 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: PJ-Comix

http://www.personalliberty.com/news/republicans-prepare-to-dig-in-heels-on-clean-water-restoration-act-19514661/


11 posted on 12/24/2009 8:53:28 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: PJ-Comix

http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/zogby-poll-climate-change/2009/12/14/id/342615?s=al&promo_code=9388-1


12 posted on 12/24/2009 9:00:55 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: dennisw
UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!!!

Andrew Revkin has responded to this NewsBusters story on Facebook. Read the update at NewsBusters at the end of this story.

13 posted on 12/24/2009 9:13:38 AM PST by PJ-Comix ("They spent a trillion dollars on a guess?" ---Astute DUmmie observation)
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To: PJ-Comix

http://www.personalliberty.com/news/epa-greenhouse-gases-a-global-hazard-stricter-regulations-to-come-19499847/


14 posted on 12/24/2009 9:16:10 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: PJ-Comix

Andrew Revkin’s update is the perfect professorial weasel words. Yeah he’s above it all with his oh so wide perspective because now he’s an effin prof at Pace University which is in the bush league of bush universities. After all these years at the New York Times he couldn’t he get on at NASA/ColumbiaUniversity with James Hansen?

Hey, it’s a paycheck and he’s not sticking up any banks


15 posted on 12/24/2009 10:41:54 AM PST by dennisw
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To: PJ-Comix
Not quite, PJ: He was implicated in the scheme by being in around a dozen of the dumped emails:

Selected CRU Emails, Part II: Independence of the Press?

Cheers!

16 posted on 12/24/2009 1:24:22 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Speaking of GW, my son and daughter-in-law have been stuck in a foot of GW just south of Wichita Falls,Tx since 2:00 pm central where a truck overturned. Don’t know if we can take much more of this globull warming.


17 posted on 12/24/2009 4:33:53 PM PST by TStro
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To: dennisw

Inded on all counts.

Certainly it wouldn’t have been shame for his being part of the news being made in the Climategate emails.

Right?


18 posted on 12/25/2009 5:00:59 PM PST by StAntKnee (I keep thinking I'm gonna wake up from this dream theatre of the absurd.)
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