I had an over the lunch table debate with AP’s Seth Borenstein at a meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists convention a couple of years ago.  His only excuse for his biased environemtal  reporting was that MIT professor Richard Lindzen “would not return my phone calls.” Obviously he did not bother to call the hundreds of other climate scientists who criticize the scientific “consensus.”

A couple of days after Climategate story broke Borenstein authored this article in the N&O: “Hotter world arrived sooner than expected.”

WASHINGTON — Since the 1997
international accord to fight global warming, climate change has
worsened and accelerated – beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made
back then.

As
the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship
passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic.
In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of
ice. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa are
shrinking faster than before.

And it’s not just the frozen parts
of the world that have felt the heat in the dozen years leading up to
next month’s climate summit in Copenhagen:

The world’s oceans have risen by about an inch and a half.

Droughts and wildfires have turned more severe worldwide, from the U.S. West to Australia to the Sahel desert of North Africa.

Species
now in trouble because of changing climate include, not just the
lumbering polar bear which has become a symbol of global warming, but
also fragile butterflies, colorful frogs and entire stands of North
American pine forests.

Temperatures over the past 12 years are 0.4 degrees warmer than the dozen years leading up to 1997.

Not a word about the emails that call all of this into question.  Great reporting, Seth.    All the news that is fit to swing public opinion in favor of the limits on human freedom that will be proposed in Copenhagen.