George Will vs. the NYT on global warming (and a moral equivalence between him and Gore!)

Will, in his latest Jewish World Review essay, takes a New York Times writer to task for his coverage of an earlier essay by Will and unprofessionalism...

Few phenomena generate as much heat as disputes about current orthodoxies concerning global warming. [I] recently reported and commented on some developments pertinent to the debate about whether global warming is occurring and what can and should be done. That column, which expressed skepticism about some emphatic proclamations by the alarmed, took a stroll down memory lane, through the debris of 1970s predictions about the near certainty of calamitous global cooling.

Concerning those predictions, the New York Times was — as it is today in a contrary crusade — a megaphone for the alarmed, as when (May 21, 1975) it reported that "a major cooling of the climate" was "widely considered inevitable"...

On Wednesday, the Times carried a "news analysis" [by Andrew Revkin]— a story in the paper's news section, but one that was not just reporting news — accusing Al Gore and this columnist of inaccuracies....

In a story ostensibly about journalism, he simply asserts — how does he know this? — that the last decade, which passed without warming, was just "a pause in warming." His attempt to contact this writer was an e-mail sent at 5:47 p.m., a few hours before the Times began printing his story, which was not so time-sensitive — it concerned controversies already many days running — that it had to appear the next day. But Revkin reported that "experts said" this columnist's intervention in the climate debate was "riddled with" inaccuracies. Revkin's supposed experts might exist and might have expertise but they do not have names that Revkin wished to divulge....