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NYT Tackles Damning Global Warming Emails, But Reveals Own Hypocrisy
Clay Waters
Times Watch
Monday, Nov 23rd, 2009
A trove of emails back and forth among climatologists stolen from a server at the University of East Anglia in Britain has caused shock waves and may even have repercussions against the idea that humans are making a significant and harmful contribution to global warming. The emails include some shockingly shoddy science and venomous attacks on climate-change dissenters by ostensibly objective climate scientists.
In a Saturday front-page story, environmental reporter Andrew Revkin showed, albeit too politely, that the emails show global warming propagandists in a bad light: “Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder For Climate Change Dispute.”
But why won’t the Times post the raw documents on its site? Revkin’s corresponding post on his nytimes.com Dot Earth blog displayed institutional hypocrisy:
The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.
Michael Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard found that to be choice:
This is the position of the New York Times when given the chance to publish sensitive information that might hinder the liberal agenda. Of course, when the choice is between publishing classified information that might endanger the lives of U.S. troops in the field or intelligence programs vital to national security, that information is published without hesitation by the nation’s paper of record. But in this case — the documents were “never intended for the public eye,” so the New York Times will take a pass.
Credit the Times for putting the story on the front page, but in a way it came too soon (the emails first became known Thursday afternoon). Revkin was unable to unearth all the nuggets from the massive file dump. By contrast, the Washington Post story by Juliet Eilperin, which appeared a day later, was more thorough and made perhaps a bigger impact in the Sunday edition.
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