Andrew Revkin Spins ‘ClimateGate’ Story

AIM Column | By K. Daniel Glover | November 23, 2009

The only time Revkin played the role of objective reporter was when he cited the spin of his friends in the global warming community.

Poor Andrew Revkin can’t help himself. The New York Times reporter and Dot Earth blogger is so intellectually invested in the environmental movement that he simply cannot report bad news about the movement’s extremists without spinning it.

That’s what he did over the weekend when confronted with a mountain of evidence that his heroes of global warming “science” actually are villains who have been manipulating data to achieve pre-determined beliefs, resisting efforts to make their research public, and maligning anyone who dares question their work.

The evidence came in the form of more than a decade’s worth of e-mails from within the global warming cabal. They were published online after a hacker hit the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. The e-mails appeared on the Internet on Thursday, and the revelations within them quickly became scandalous.

Revkin covered the scandal, already predictably dubbed “ClimateGate,” in the Times on Friday and has been blogging and “tweeting” about it, too. His body of work on the story further solidifies Revkin’s reputation as a journalist with an agenda who can’t be trusted to fairly report the facts about the environmental community.

The bias began in the headline, “Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute.” It avoided the substance of the scandal — what the e-mails actually say — and downplayed it to nothing more than just another he-said-she-said debate among global warming alarmists and critics.

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