Comment: Spin is in, but climate change still there
Toronto Star / Tyler Hamilton / 15 February 2010
In Canada, the Financial Post's resident libertarian Terence Corcoran wrote a column in late January with a headline that shouted "Climate agency going up in flames," while The Globe and Mail's Margaret Wente wrote early in February that "the science scandals just keep on coming" and that the entire climate-change movement has been discredited. Columnist Rex Murphy, who has fittingly moved on to the National Post, is pretty much saying the same thing, only with bigger words.
Wishful thinking doesn't make it so.
Interestingly, Corcoran and Wente supported their arguments by mentioning how University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver is, in Wente's words, among the many climate scientists who "sense a sinking ship" and are "bailing out." Corcoran wrote that Weaver is "heading for the exits" and this is "firm evidence that the IPCC is in trouble."
Here's what Weaver had to say when asked by the Star about the recent coverage. "It would be nice if they actually called me," he said.
