{"id":2392,"date":"2010-02-09T16:17:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2010-02-09T16:17:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:17:36","slug":"attacking-the-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"Attacking the Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://prsaboston.org/careers/">https://prsaboston.org/careers/</a> I&#8217;m not surprised that Romm goes <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/02\/09\/new-york-times-elisabeth-rosenthal-unbalanced-climate-coverage-ipcc-pachauri\/\" target=\"_blank\">bananas<\/a> over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/09\/science\/earth\/09climate.html?hp=&amp;pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">this front-page article<\/a> in today&#8217;s NYT by Elisabeth Rosenthal, because it prominently quotes <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Pielke, Jr<\/a>. Any high profile story with a Pielke makes Romm all frothy. (I do, however, think the piece leaned too heavily on Roger and that it should have mentioned that he is a frequent critic of the IPCC.)<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://clinicanovogama.com/servicos/">https://clinicanovogama.com/servicos/</a> What surprises me is the over the top reaction that Romm elicits from Robert Brulle, a communications expert at Drexel University. He tells Romm in an email that the story is the &#8220;the worst, one sided reporting I have ever seen.&#8221;\u009d\u00a0 Hmm, that makes me wonder how much reporting he&#8217;s actually read. (Worse than many of the MSM stories leading up to the Iraq war?) But wait, it gets better&#8211;er, I mean worse. Because this morning, according to Romm, Brulle lards it on during a phone conversation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://seventhplanehealings.com/index.php/booking/">https://seventhplanehealings.com/index.php/booking/</a> In this article, the New York Times has become an echo-chamber for the climate disinformation movement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://interestingpsychology.com/terms-and-conditions/">https://interestingpsychology.com/terms-and-conditions/</a> Now that&#8217;s a mouthful.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://onemillionjourney.com/paying-yourself-first-how-long-to-become-millionaire/">Get Tramadol Online</a> Just to be clear: this is not a perfect story, by any stretch (how many are?). I have my own beefs, namely that the writer didn&#8217;t deliver all the goods. Rosenthal writes, for example, that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://www.mytravelstudio.com/contact/"></a> the climate panel has found itself in the political cross hairs, its judgments provoking passions normally reserved for issues like abortion and guns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://prsaboston.org/apr-accreditation/">https://prsaboston.org/apr-accreditation/</a> So how about an example of those culture war passions? She doesn&#8217;t offer any, though the blogosphere is ablaze with them.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://advogadoemresende.com/advogadoemquissama/">Diazepam Online Purchase</a> I also don&#8217;t understand why Rosenthal didn&#8217;t mention the larger implications of the IPCC controversies, in terms of the impact to public opinion. It&#8217;s not like there aren&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/framing-science\/2010\/01\/surveys_this_week_show_more_si.php\" target=\"_blank\">polls<\/a> to reference. Even liberal bloggers like Kevin Drum are <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2010\/02\/climate-change-and-its-discontents\" target=\"_blank\">wondering<\/a> what the effect of all the bad news is.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://www.mytravelstudio.com/about/"></a> These quibbles aside, I thought that the story was a fair (but narrow) representation of the IPCC&#8217;s (and it&#8217;s chairman&#8217;s) recent troubles. Rosenthal didn&#8217;t overplay all the accusations (she even downplayed the latest ones as &#8220;half-truths) and she gave Pachauri and his supporters equal space for rebuttal.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://onemillionjourney.com/paying-yourself-first-how-long-to-become-millionaire/">Get Tramadol Online</a> Was it necessary to let <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Monckton,_3rd_Viscount_Monckton_of_Brenchley\" target=\"_blank\">Monckton<\/a> tag-team on Pachauri over the\u00a0 conflicts of interest issue? No. It wasn&#8217;t even necessary to use Monckton. I suspect his presence in the story&#8211;in addition to Pielke&#8217;s&#8211; is what gets Romm and Brulle all riled up. Monckton represents the bonkers wing of the skeptic universe. He&#8217;s just not a credible critic of climate science, much less the IPCC. If the point of Rosenthal&#8217;s story was to highlight how the IPCC&#8217;s recent troubles is reinforcing <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/2010\/02\/09\/the-climate-narrative\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morano&#8217;s manufactured narrative<\/a>, then Monckton is your man. But if the point is to suss out the legitimate criticism of the IPCC from the exaggerated&#8211;and where to go from there&#8211; then why not use a credible source, such as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scidev.net\/en\/opinions\/a-changing-climate-for-the-ipcc-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Hulme<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://seventhplanehealings.com/index.php/energetic-wellness/">https://seventhplanehealings.com/index.php/energetic-wellness/</a> Still, does Monckton&#8217;s presence and the extra dose of Pielke really add up, in Brulle&#8217;s words, to an &#8220;echo-chamber for the climate disinformation movement&#8221;? I don&#8217;t see it. If any of my less partisan readers disagree, please set me straight.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://interestingpsychology.com/about-us/">https://interestingpsychology.com/about-us/</a> <strong> <a href="https://trefoilcareservices.com.au/our-area/">https://trefoilcareservices.com.au/our-area/</a> UPDATE<\/strong>: Tom Yulsman over at CEJ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cejournal.net\/?p=2805\" target=\"_blank\">poses<\/a> a different set of questions related to the Times story, most provocatively,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://drreddyfamilydoctors.com/patient-forms/">Tramadol For Sale Online</a> Has the IPCC outlived its usefulness?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://chitolytic.com/chitosan-oligo-nanoparticles/">Order Valium Online</a> <strong> <a href="https://chitolytic.com/chitosan-bioplastic/">https://chitolytic.com/chitosan-bioplastic/</a> UPDATE 2<\/strong>: Mathew Nisbet at Framing Science has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/framing-science\/2010\/02\/thoughts_on_todays_front_page.php\" target=\"_blank\">take<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
 Critics on the left are alleging bias in the story, but if there is bias, it is simply journalists&#8217; orientation to pay attention to and report on possible wrong-doing by those in positions of influence and to follow perceived conflict.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m overly sensitive to the term &#8220;bias,&#8221; but Nisbet is right about this journalistic tendency to cover the controversy or some perceived trangression. In this case, however, I think the story was warranted, given it was preceded by weeks of widespread reporting of numerous IPCC issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not surprised that Romm goes bananas over this front-page article in today&#8217;s NYT by Elisabeth Rosenthal, because it prominently quotes Roger Pielke, Jr. Any high profile story with a Pielke makes Romm all frothy. (I do, however, think the piece leaned too heavily on Roger and that it should have mentioned that he is&#8230;<span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=2392\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2964],"tags":[835,1585],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-science-journalism","tag-climate-change","tag-science-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}