George Will joined Baptist Press in kicking hornets' nests this week. Indeed, Will's choice of nests recalled the BP response to Southern Baptist Environment and Climate Initiative (SBECI), as chronicled by Jonathan Merritt. For Will turned his acid intellectual pen to defending the pseudo science of "global cooling," which was given some friendly treatment by BP (just as global warming got a Southern Baptist cold shoulder) while Merritt struggled vainly in 2008 to get corrective messages through to a BP editor.
Messages to Will are public, however. Neither he nor his staff need answer phone or email for compelling correctives to be filed.
Nate Silver gave Will his comeuppance over what may yet be called "Will's Law," as a jape.
As Ezra Klein puts it:
In other words, comparing apples to apples, the scientific community didn't believe in global cooling and does believe in global warming. Sadly, our political pundits have outsourced their scientific research to an intern charged with a superficial skim of Newsweek covers.
Sound stewardship of facts, or climate, anyone?
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