New York Times climate reporter Andy Revkin fooled a lot of skeptics into thinking he was open-minded — not us.
From the Climategate 2.0 collection, Revkin writes to MIT’s Ronald Prinn,
some blogging and my responses below, related to the ‘climate middle’ story (huffington and grist essentially same. huffington response had to be abridged for space). something for everyone.. a key take-home point, please, is that this story was written mainly for the benefit of the 10s of millions of disengaged or doubtful or simply under-edcuated Americans out there for whom it is NEWS that the only discourse now is among folks who believe human-forced climate change is a huge problem. (as jim hansen said in my story, exclamation point included!) the ‘hotter’ voices are doing their job well. i’m doing mine.
There are those stupid Americans again.
Revkin’s full e-mail is below.
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wmw@ucar.edu, jmahlman@ucar.edu, manabe@splash.princeton.edu,
m.hulme@uea.ac.uk, thomas.lowe@rmit.edu.au, rsomerville@ucsd.edu,
penner@umich.edu, covey1@llnl.gov, cwunsch@mit.edu,
wallace@atmos.washington.edu, jholdren@whrc.org, hjacoby@mit.edu,
jhansen@giss.nasa.gov, pre@stanford.edu, pre@stanford.edu, gschmidt@giss.nasa.gov
date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:08:13 -0500
from: Andy Revkin
subject: Re: ‘nonskeptic heretics’ or the like
to: Ronald Prinn
some blogging and my responses below, related to the ‘climate middle’ story (huffington
and
grist essentially same. huffington response had to be abridged for space). something for
everyone..
a key take-home point, please, is that this story was written mainly for the benefit of the
10s of millions of disengaged or doubtful or simply under-edcuated Americans out there
for
whom it is NEWS that the only discourse now is among folks who believe human-forced
climate
change is a huge problem. (as jim hansen said in my story, exclamation point included!)
the ‘hotter’ voices are doing their job well.
i’m doing mine.
[1]http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/1/2/131839/3289
[2]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-roberts/high-broderism-reaches-th_b_37639.html
[3]http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/01/02/publiceye/entry2321267.shtml
and make sure you read today’s piece by michael barbaro on Walmart and lightbulbs.
[4]www.nytimes.com/energychallenge
ANDREW C. REVKIN
The New York Times / Environment
229 West 43d St., NY NY 10036
phone: 212-556-7326 / e-mail: revkin@nytimes.com / fax: 509-357-0965
Arctic book: The North Pole Was Here: [5]www.nytimes.com/learning/globalwarming
Amazon book: The Burning Season [6]www.islandpress.org/