George Will, Now With Misleading Links!

There's a lot of dismally wrong coverage of global warming these days (see some recent examples chronicled by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum at The Intersection, for example). But the way global warming gets treated on the op-ed pages of the Washington Post--particularly by George Will and his enabling editors--is particularly exquisite. For my little Ahab-like obsession with the editorial process there, check out this string of posts. Many other observers have made similar points, so you'd think that somebody over at the Post might have learned something from the experience. Today, we see that they haven't. One of the more egregious lines from George Will's recent columns on global warming is the claim that real data shows that warnings about a rise in the average global temperature are wrong. He writes: "According to the U.N. World Meteorological Organization, there has been no recorded global warming for more than a decade." The secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization himself, Michael Jarraud, decided he had to write to the Washington Post to tell them George Will is wrong. Here's the nut of Jarraud's letter from March 21: