Okie fisks Newsweek
Here's a great old-fashioned fisking by occasional JYB guest-poster Okie on the Lam, who's been punching hard on global warming issues for about a month or so. (Penraker has, too.) Today's outrage comes via Newsweek, under the title of "The Truth About Denial".
Okie doesn't leave much for me to add, having made a pretty credible case that reporter Sharon Begley is engaging in "agenda journalism". Which is a shame; I recognize Begley's name from a Wall Street Journal science column that was usually fun to read and informative. I guess she wasn't satisfied with that and wanted to Take On Global Warming Deniers, and Newsweek was happy to let her do that.
I should attach a caveat that maybe Begley's right. Maybe she's right about global warming being amenable to human manipulation. I'm fairly certain she's right about some of the voices attacking it not having the purest of motives. (Those supporting them, of course, are uniformly Unspotted By Original Sin and their bottoms smell like Turkish delight.) But not only does she obviously consider that opposition to trendy theories of climate change must be wrong, she simply starts from the assumption that that entire side of the debate must be working in bad faith.
And that's agenda journalism.
Confidential to Exxon: Still awaiting my enormous freakin' check for my advocacy, fellas. Please remit already.