Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/27/2010 2:22:21 PM PST by neverdem
Articles still fall short of ambitious work in the U.K.
A couple of America’s leading media outlets finally dug into the recent controversy surrounding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last week. The Observatory first criticized U.S. news outlets two weeks ago for not paying more attention to the issue.
Last Tuesday, The New York Times ran a front-page article by Elisabeth Rosenthal under the headline, “U.N. Panel and Its Chief Face a Siege on Their Credibility.” On Wednesday, the Associated Press ran one over the wire headlined, “Scientists seek better way to do climate report.” The difference between the two headlines—the Times focused on the panel’s faults, the AP on its attempts to address them—is important. Each tells half the story, but it is the latter that should lead.
That focus would defy the media’s preference for a conflict narrative and the “front-page thought,” but the story here is not the fact that the IPCC and climate scientists have made mistakes. From the batch of e-mails taken from the University of East Anglia in November to more recent allegations of errors and poor sourcing in the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, these mistakes have done little to undermine the fundamental theory that human industry is contributing to global warming, or prove that the field of climate science is riddled with corruption. The story, properly told, is about whether or not the responsible parties are responding appropriately to flaws in the system (correcting the record where necessary and working to prevent the recurrence of past mistakes).
Bearing this in mind, it is easy to see why—as Climate Progress blogger Joe Romm first pointed out—Rosenthal buried her lede in the ninth paragraph, which reads:
The panel, in reviewing complaints about possible errors in its report, has so far found that...
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The US Press is a joke. They are un-believable and nobody should pay any attention to them. They Lie.
The commie ‘RAT politicians are going to have to back off on their healthcare scam if they want to have any chance of saving their globaloney hoax and scam. Their toadies in the “media” can’t do it all.
Precisely.
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The first sentence in the series, by veteran science writer Fred Pearce, began by acknowledging that “many may think [the paper] should not publish for fear of wrecking the already battered cause of fighting climate change.” The Guardian was right to ignore those voices. They preach the same head-in-the-sand mentality that led FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) to criticize The Observatory two weeks ago for calling for more coverage of the IPCC’s travails.
He seems to be supporting coverage of the scandal.
Forget what those criminals say about “mistakes” in their own work. Read what the Institute of Physics says about their “mistakes.” Would Jack the Ripper be trusted to review the aesthetics of his work?
He does, but Fred Pearce is as much a true believer in AGW as Andy Revkin of the NY Times. A "journalist" covering a story, what a concept! Maybe the state run media will buy a clue?
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