the-future-now:the-future-now:People are cancelling their ‘New York Times’ subscriptions over a clim
the-future-now:the-future-now:People are cancelling their ‘New York Times’ subscriptions over a climate change columnNewly hired New York Times columnist Bret Stephens’ controversial first column is going over like a lead balloon with the paper’s progressive readers — some of whom are furiously pledging to unsubscribe.In the column, Stephens cautions readers that even though the data pointed to Hillary Clinton winning the election, that’s not what ended up happening. “There’s a lesson here” about climate change, he says.“We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris,” Stephens wrote. “Claiming total certainty about the science traduces the spirit of science and creates openings for doubt whenever a climate claim proves wrong.”Stephens’ skepticism incensed scores of readers, many of whom claimed on Twitter to be in the process of cancelling their subscriptions. Read more (5/1/17)follow @the-future-nowUpdate: ‘New York Times’ adds correction to Bret Stephens’ climate change op-edThe New York Times, recently the target of a wave of scathing criticism for hiring former Wall Street Journal editor Bret Stephens and publishing the op-ed editor’s first column, a defense of climate change skepticism, issued a correction to said column on Monday.Now affixed to the column — which argued “ordinary citizens … have a right to be skeptical of an overweening scientism” — is a correction regarding the only piece of scientific research Stephens cited.The correction dated May 1 reads as follows: “An earlier version of this article misstated the area that warmed by 0.85 degrees Celsius as noted in the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel report. It was the globally averaged combined land and ocean surface, not only the Northern Hemisphere.“ Read more (5/1/17)Because correcting insignificant things fixes up the fact that the new hire denies the reality in front of them, right? -- source link