Friday 27 February 2009

Wall street journal - obnoxious on global warming

Interesting piece from Stuart Gaffin of Columbia University on Reuters environment blog. He's critiquing yet another attempt to argue for the status quo regarding taking action to reduce CO2 emissions in the US:

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial page occupies a uniquely obnoxious place in commentary on global warming.....In response to President Obama’s revolutionary new efforts to cap CO2 emissions, WSJ editorial member Holman Jenkins Jr. tells us to “…Put away the global warming panic…” and writes an impressive number of fictions in two sentences...

in the same sentence that claims science knows nothing about CO2, somehow he [Jenkins Jr] (or science?) knows enough about it to conclude that “ …the impact is too small to untangle from natural variability …” Which one is it?

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