George Will and the Washington Post

You've undoubtedly heard about George Will's continuing diatribe arguing that global climate change isn't happening and isn't a problem worth worrying about. What you may not have heard is that Washington Post reporters are now calling Will on his misrepresentations, and remember, it's the Washington Post that publishes and syndicates Will's column.

Here's what Andrew Freedman has to say on the Capital Weather Gang in a post entitled "Will Misleads Readers on Climate Science - Again."

Will's climate change columns are a case study in how one can cherry pick scientific data to fit their own agenda...George Will's recent columns demonstrate a very troubling pattern of misrepresentation of climate science.

Go read the whole post to see the evidence that Will is cherry picking and why Freedman concludes that Will is misrepresenting climate science.

Or you can read this article from yesterday's Washington Post in which Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth Sheridan describe new evidence that Arctic sea ice is shrinking and becoming thinner. If you do, be sure you read all the way through. You'll find this paragraph near the end.

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.

Let's see if fact checkers for the Washington Post's editorial page hold Will to the same standards of factual accuracy that editors of the Post's news pages hold their reporters to. Looks to me as if there could be some interesting editorial meetings in the next few days.