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theenergycollective.com - 4/12/2009
The media and scientific responsibility
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One of the challenges teaching about climate change is that the students are privilege to all the bad information available online and in other forms of media. Climate science is not unique in this sense; the 24-7 game of broken telephone known as the internet is a challenge for instructors of ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 4/7/2009
Will Misleads Readers on Climate Science - Again - Capital Weather Gang
— voices.washingtonpost.com — Hi Matt. Discourse is healthy, of course, and Will is free to express his arguments, provided they... are factually accurate. However, he has consistently made arguments based on scientific data that scientists have repeatedly stated are not correct, ... (more) Will Misleads Readers on Climate Science - Again - ...

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Washington Post reporter calls out George Will for lying in Washington Post
grist.org - 4/7/2009
Washington Post reporter calls out George Will for lying in Washington Post
— grist.org — Today, in a news story on Arctic sea ice, Washington Post reporters Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth... Sheridan explicitly call out Washington Post op-ed writer George Will for lying about climate change ... in the Washington Post. (more) Washington Post reporter calls out George Will for lying ...

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climateprogress.org - 4/12/2009
Washington Post corrects itself: “Make no mistake, Arctic Sea ice is melting,” may be gone in ...
— climateprogress.org — The Washington Post famously let George Will make a variety of mistakes and misstatements in three recent... op-eds (see “ Post editors let George Will publish a third time global warming lies debunked on its own pages “). Will’s misstatements ... (more) Washington Post corrects itself: “Make no mistake, ...

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