George Will lied about climate change in Washington Post | Grist
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Today, Washington Post reporters Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth Sheridan have a piece on the alarming decline of Arctic sea ice. In and of itself the story isn’t that surprising: scientists have known for a while that the ice is declining; new data just confirms that it’s happening faster than originally estimated. That’s consistent with all sorts of new observational data on the effects of climate change, which across the board seem to be exceeding scientists’ most pessimistic predictions.
What jumped out at me is this bit, toward the bottom of the piece:
The new evidence—including satellite data showing that the average multiyear wintertime sea ice cover in the Arctic in 2005 and 2006 was nine feet thick, a significant decline from the 1980s—contradicts data cited in widely circulated reports by Washington Post columnist George F. Will that sea ice in the Arctic has not significantly declined since 1979. [my emphasis]
Hard to read it as anything but a rebuke from the news team to Post editor Fred Hiatt and his editorial page’s “multi-layer editing process,” which allowed Will to lie and mislead on climate change three times just in the last few months, even after being corrected, publicly, by multiple sources.
Along the same lines, see this new piece on the Post’s weather blog, by Andrew Freeman: “Will Misleads Readers on Climate Science - Again.”
In response to the Will controversy, numerous people have made the point that people who work for the Post—the ones who aren’t full of shit—have a responsibility to speak out about their employer’s willingness to mislead readers.
It appears some of them are trying.
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bombastinator
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Lacking data its hard to talk about this but it sounds like there are dueling studies rather than that someone is lying.
until further proof is given I'd have to call BS on the lying claim here. It's horrendously unlikely. How did this get to be a feature?
[edit] data found.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/06/AR2009040601634....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/06/AR2009040601634....The Washington Post is subscription only but registration is free. Remember you are under no requirement to tell the truth on their required personal questions.
The new article is actually titled "New Data Show Rapid Arctic Ice Decline"
George Will's article was published in February, before the new data came out. This article needs to be retitled with "lying" changed to "contradicted' or "proved wrong"I'm not a giant George Will fan or anything but You can't call him a liar for this.
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bombastinator
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leahl
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can you post a link to the article?
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leahl
