Semi-Daily Journal Archive

The Blogspot archive of the weblog of J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics and Chair of the PEIS major at U.C. Berkeley, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? (Yet Another Washington Post Edition)

Doug Struck of the Washington Post is a bad person. ThinkProgress reports:

ThinkProgress: Today's Washington Post has a story about Canada's conservative government cutting funds for programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This passage stuck out:

Canada, which has long clung to its "green" image, hosted early work that led to the Kyoto Protocol, in which 163 countries and regional organizations pledged to meet quotas to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions that many scientists believe are warming Earth, melting glaciers and brewing more-intense storms.

Many scientists believe carbon dioxide emissions are warming the earth?

Science Magazine analyzed 928 peer-reviewed scientific papers on global warming published between 1993 and 2003. Not a single one challenged the scientific consensus the earth's temperature is rising due to human activity. This scientific debate only exists in newspaper articles...

Memo to Post: the Bushies cannot reward you for your subservience any more. And your reputation will take a long time to recover--if it ever does.

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