NYT's Revkin Laments Media's Incorrect hyping of frogs and warming

Here.

Note how this story was hyped by the National Science Foundation and the IPCC.

Here's the money quote from a January '06 article by Revkin himself:

Paradoxically, the fungus thrives best in cooler conditions, challenging the theory that global warming is at fault. But Dr. Pounds and his team, in studying trends in temperature and disease around the American tropics, found patterns that they say explain the situation.

Because warming increases evaporation, it can create clouds that tend to make days cooler by blocking sunlight, and make nights warmer by trapping heat. In an interview, Dr. Pounds said those conditions could have created favorable conditions for the spread of the chytrid fungus.

A related article is here.

By the way, I think even Revkin is slowly "losing his religion" about the alleged global warming crisis. I think the wording of this paragraph is telling:

An enduring conundrum at the heart of the global warming issue/challenge/crisis/emergency is that the dramatic facets that matter most to society — how fast and far seas will rise, how strong hurricanes may get, how many species will vanish — are the least certain.

Update 1: From a related post here:

Stick around. All the pseudoscience - and accompanying hysteria - are about to come crashing down.

And not a day too soon..

Update 2: World Climate Report has some interesting background here.

Excerpt:

This is yet another example showing that flimsy, but provocative findings that anthropogenic climate change is destroying the world quickly and easily make their way into prestigious scientific journals, the global media, and scientific assessments, and that it takes a long time to dispel these myths, despite evidence to the contrary that, in many cases, has been readily available all along. A service that we are more than happy to provide through our World Climate Report blog.