NY Times’ Gillis, Man on a Climate Mission, Mocks GOP Crazies, Demands Zero Emissions
By Clay Waters | February 7, 2017 | 2:46 PM EST
New York Times reporter Justin Gillis is a man on a mission to save the planet from the depredations of global warming (rebranded as “climate change”). The activist environmental reporter was at it again in the paper’s Tuesday Science section, “Cooling Language About a Warming Earth” (too ideological even for the news pages?).
Gillis, who under the guise of a journalist regularly pushes the idea of a looming environmental apocalypse in the Times’ news pages, has a bad habit of taking the front page to declare warming “records” which may not or do not actually exist, and then not deigning to explain the discrepancies. They apparently don’t matter to the “ordinary reader” anyway.
His editors even plucked out a professor’s quote for the article’s text box that warned Republicans not to “look too crazy” on the issue.
Gillis’s contempt was obvious from his muted mockery:
…Not long ago, many Republican officeholders had a simple answer when asked about the changing climate: What changing climate?
But the public began to notice the heat waves and the torrential rains and the tidal flooding. So then we had the “I am not a scientist” phase, with one lawmaker after another fending off climate questions with that formula.
That drew such ridicule that Republicans critical of climate science had to come up with a more nuanced answer. Several variations on the new approach were on display recently during confirmation hearings for some of President Trump’s cabinet nominees.
“Science tells us that the climate is changing and human activity in some manner impacts that change,” Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general nominated to run the Environmental Protection Agency, told a Senate committee. “The human ability to measure with precision the extent of that impact is subject to continuing debate and dialogue, as well they should be.”
Let us ponder the craftsmanship of that second sentence.
“With precision” is the key phrase, of course, and it renders the statement almost axiomatically true. Do we have trouble taking the precise temperature of an entire planet and then divining, for a given period, exactly how much of the change in that temperature is caused by human activities?
Well, yes.
Anybody who did not know better might come away thinking there is room to doubt whether humans are the main cause
Watch: Morano on TV: NYT hottest year article ‘was bunk’ – Claim is ‘meaningless’
‘Loss making New York Times is planning to intensify its global warming propaganda’
Loss making New York Times is planning to intensify its global warming propaganda
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The loss making New York Times is planning to intensify its global warming scare propaganda:The New York Times is looking for a climate change editorDrone footage that shows Greenland melting away. Long narratives about the plight of climate refugees, from Louisiana to Bolivia and beyond. A series on the California drought. Color-coded maps that show how hot it could be in 2060.The New York Times is a leader in covering climate change. Now The Times is ramping up its coverage to make the most important story in the world even more relevant, urgent and accessible to a huge audience around the globe.We are looking for an editor to lead this dynamic new group. We want someone with an entrepreneurial streak who is obsessed with finding new ways to connect with readers and new ways to tell this vital story.The coverage should encompass: the science of climate change; the politics of climate debates; the technological race to find solutions; the economic consequences of climate change; and profiles of fascinating characters enmeshed in the issues.The coverage should include journalism in a variety of formats: video, photography, newsletters, features, podcasts, conferences and more. The unit should make strategic decisions about which forms are top priorities and which are not.The climate editor will collaborate with many others throughout the newsroom, but will operate apart from the current department structure, with no print obligations. –To ApplyApplicants should submit a resume, examples of previous work, and a memo outlining their vision for coverage to Dean Baquet and Sam Dolnick by Sept. 19. This vision is the most important part of the application. It should be specific and set clear priorities. Some important questions to wrestle with:What audiences should we be focusing on?How will our coverage fit into their lives, and how will they experience it?How will we distinguish our coverage from other journalism in this space?What will be the main vehicles for the coverage? Features? News? Videos?Should there be a signature voice attached to our climate coverage? Who?How will you make a difficult subject interesting and accessible?What stories are we willing not to do?What should the team look like to get it done?This non-Guild position is open to internal and external candidates. Applications should be sent to [email protected]´ll bet that the well paid job goes to the person who answers the penultimate question by …
NYT: Forecast for Sea Level Rise By 2100 Scaled Back from max of 6 feet to 4 feet – But ‘reconstruction’ of sea levels over 28 centuries claim current rate is fastest rising
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/science/sea-level-rise-global-warming-climate-change.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Scientists reconstructed the level of the sea over time and confirmed that it is most likely rising faster than at any point in 28 centuries, with the rate of increase growing sharply over the past century — largely, they found, because of the warming that scientists have said is almost certainly caused by human emissions.
They also confirmed previous forecasts that if emissions were to continue at a high rate over the next few decades, the ocean could rise as much as three or four feet by 2100.
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One of the authors of the new paper, Dr. Rahmstorf, had previously published estimates suggesting the sea could rise as much as five or six feet by 2100. But with the improved calculations from the new paper, his latest upper estimate is three to four feet.
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Scientists say the recent climate agreement negotiated in Paris is not remotely ambitious enough to forestall a significant melting of Greenland and Antarctica, though if fully implemented, it may slow the pace somewhat.…
Trust the New York Times? Says Skeptic Climate Scientists are Crooks (ignore NYT’s burden-of-proof wipeout)
…NYT Reporter Justin Gillis: NYT Reporter: Quoting Global Warming Skeptics Perpetuates ‘A Lie
http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/24/nyt-reporter-quoting-global-warming-skeptics-perpetuates-a-lie/…
NY Times Justin Gillis: ‘It is a lie to say that global warming poses no danger’
http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/24/reporters-explain-why-balance-isnt-needed-on-global-warming/…