The Washington Post editorial board came out with a strong statement about climate change that, even with its few errors, would be an important statement if it weren’t such a monumental travesty in the face of actual Washington Post editorial policy and practices.
Entitled Climate Insurance, the editorial begins.
THE EARTH is warming. A chief cause is [...]
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Washington Post editorial board … confusion is bad (even if we’re at fault)
February 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Energy · George Will · Global Warming · Washington Post · climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · global warming deniers · government energy policy · politics · sarah palin · truthiness
POSTal Schizophrenia re Climate Science strikes again
February 14th, 2010 · No Comments
The Washington Post has an incredibly uneven nature when it comes to the science related to Climate Change. The editorial page will publish an absolutely dishonest piece, be challenged to such an extent that they will publish multiple letters (including from misquoted scientists/scientific institutions) calling out the fraudulent material, and then give George “Will-ful Deceit” [...]
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Washington Post washes its hands with passive voice re climate change confusion
December 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
The Washington Post / ABC News 13 Dec 09 poll had both some gloomy and some bright news when it comes to Americans’ perspectives about climate change and how/whether we should act in response to them.
The Post/ABC poll and The Post’s 18 Dec 09 reporting of it in On environment, Obama and scientists take hit [...]
Tags: George Will · Global Warming · anti-science syndrome · climate change · energy efficiency · global warming deniers · government energy policy
Fred Hiatt jumps the shark in dragging Washington Post into the sewers: Publishes Sarah Palin OPED contradicted by links within the OPED
December 8th, 2009 · 11 Comments
As someone weaned on the Watergate-era Washington Post, The Washington Post opinion section has been abysmal in its ‘faux and balanced’ nature in recent years. And, it is sinking to a new low in its fostering of a ClimateGate era.
Post Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt’s utter disdain for truthful discourse has been evidenced not just [...]
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Enemies of Green: Faux & Balanced in the Washington Post
December 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment
The Washington Post has a sad record of Faux and Balanced when it comes to Global Warming. Sunday’s opinion pieces provided yet another textbook example. Today’s paper has two authors, both enemies of ‘green’ … from utterly different angles.
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George will, won’t he, write about Antarctic ice melting?
December 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
Sadly, George Will will not be writing something truthful like the material below. Instead, we should expect that he is feverishly working on a column jumping on the denialosphere bandwagon shouting about “ClimateGate” to add his Will-ful deceit to SwiftHack.
While news reporting focuses on misreading of stolen emails, the reality is that climate chaos moves [...]
Tags: Energy · George Will · Global Warming · climate change · environmental
George Will will write about this, right? “cataclysmic and irreversible consequences for the Earth”
November 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment
A two degree centigrade warming of the globe above pre-industrial levels would have serious, some might say devastating, effects across the globe, with a range of serious consequences from weather disruptions to increased droughts (and floods) to extinctions to … It is not a pretty picture. And, we are essentially guaranteed to hit that level [...]
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New record temperatures all the time: of course George Will and deniers will write about this!
November 17th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Global warming deniers (self-proclaimed “skeptics”) are enthralled with cherry-picking data and screaming to high heaven every time there is a record cold temperature or some weather event that provides a good photo op for pimping falsehoods about global warming. Where’s my Global Warming, Dude?, for example, could be called a check-up spot for the weirdest [...]
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Will George Will’s next column highlight this?
November 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Earlier this year, columnist George Will sparked controversy with claims that global ice levels were the same as (if not greater than) 30 years earlier. This was part of George Will’s retread truthiness and deception in his widely syndicated columns falsely asserting that global warming is not happening.
With his Will-ful Deceit, Will spun this distortion [...]
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