http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/7178/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/nyt-latest-accusations-bad-climate-science-nothing-here-half-truths-right-leaning-skeptics <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Elisabeth Rosenthal skips some highlights of the latest global warming controversy, involving bogus scientific claims on disappearing Himalayan glaciers. Rosenthal defends IPCC chairman Dr. Rajendra Pauchari, blandly stating: &quot;The general consensus among mainstream scientists is that the errors are in any case minor and do not undermine the report&#039;s conclusions.&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal's Tuesday story on the latest climate change controversy, "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/science/earth/09climate.html?hp=&amp;pagewanted=all">U.N. Climate Panel and Chief Face Credibility Siege</a>," had a prominent front-page placement appropriate to the gravity of the subject: The embarrassing withdrawal of the alarmist claim, made in the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 report, that glaciers in the Himalayas were in danger of melting away by 2035. <br /></p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/nyt-latest-accusations-bad-climate-science-nothing-here-half-truths-right-leaning-skeptics" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch Environment ElisabethRosenthal Glaciers GlobalWarming Himalayas ipcc liberalmediabias NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias RajendraPauchari TimesWatch Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:02:00 +0000 admin 7361 at http://archive2.mrc.org