Taking Down George Will on Climate Change

George Will has been taken to the woodshed for his lies on climate change — by his own paper (emphasis in original):

Today, Washington Post reporters Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth Sheridan have a piece on the alarming decline of Arctic sea ice. In and of itself the story isn’t that surprising: scientists have known for a while that the ice is declining;  new data just confirms that it’s happening faster than originally estimated. …

What jumped out at me is this bit, toward the bottom of the piece:

The new evidence—including satellite data showing that the average multiyear wintertime sea ice cover in the Arctic in 2005 and 2006 was nine feet thick, a significant decline from the 1980s—contradicts data cited in widely circulated reports by Washington Post columnist George F. Will that sea ice in the Arctic has not significantly declined since 1979. [my emphasis]

And that’s not the end of it. Andrew Freedman, who writes a blog at the Washington Post about weather and climate issues, devotes an entire post to the disregard shown by Will for facts and scientific accuracy on the subject of global warming.

In addition, one of Andrew’s readers points to an op-ed by Chris Mooney that the WaPo published in response to Will’s most recent column.

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