Friday, February 22, 2008

More shoddy reporting from the Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin

From this article:
As the national environmental reporter for The Washington Post, I spend a great deal of time thinking about what it means that Earth is warming. Each week, new scientific studies chart how glaciers around the globe are melting, sea ice cover is shrinking and animals are migrating northward in search of cooler habitat.
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Over the past couple of years, as it becomes increasingly clear that the northernmost regions of the globe are becoming less frigid, I began pondering the intrinsic value of cold.
Eilperin's global "warming" reporting seems completely impervious to new temperature data like this, or to new sea ice information like this:
Satellite images are showing that the cold spell is helping the sea ice expand in coverage by about 2 million square kilometres, compared to the average winter coverage in the previous three years.
As a journalist, shouldn't she try to share the latest and best information with her readers?

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