Andrew Revkin and Tom Zeller filed a story for the December 9th New York Times on the Copenhagen Climate Conference reporting:

Asked about arguments by diplomats and some protesters that the United States should provide hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to developing nations as reparations, Mr. [Todd] Stern, the special envoy for climate change, bluntly fired back at a news conference. ‘I actually completely reject the notion of a debt or reparations or anything of the like,’ he said. ‘For most of the 200 years since the Industrial Revolution, people were blissfully ignorant of the fact that emissions

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Reporting on President Obama’s speech at the National Academy of Sciences on April 27th, Andrew Revkin of the New York Times accurately reported the administration’s proposals for new federal spending on science, technology and STEM education programs:

The president laid out an ambitious plan to invigorate the country’s pipeline for innovation, from grade-school classrooms to corporate, government and academic research laboratories.
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He provided fresh detail on an initiative, already included in the economics stimulus bill, creating a $5 billion “Race to the Top” fund available to states doing the most to increase the ranks of trained science and math teachers. Mr.

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One of the most consistent errors of logic in the dominant liberal media is their willingness to blame anything and everything on man-made global warming even when the very same article contains evidence to the contrary.

An April 16th, 2009 article by Andrew Revkin in the New York Times is a perfect example. Here are some highlights of the article entitled “Study Finds a Pattern of Severe Droughts in Africa”:

• Droughts have consistently “seared a belt of sub-Saharan Africa” for over 3,000 years, typically “every 30 to 65 years”.
• “The last such drought, persisting more than three centuries, ended around 1750,

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