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Pushing Back on Romm's Censorial Mentality

Critique of New York Times energy section highlights fossil fuel industry expansion and missed discussions on a future with no fossil fuels.

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Last week, the New York Times put out a special section on energy that didn't pass muster with Joe Romm. He declared:

I think it is safe to cancel your subscriptions to the one-time paper of record. While there are 1 or 2 reporters at the New York Times who get climate and energy, it's obvious that most don't and, more importantly, the editorial staff simply don't know what they're doing.

This is typical hyperbole from Romm that largely gets ignored by climate media watchers. But this particular rant caught Charlie Petit's eye at the Tracker. As he noted, Romm was upset

because the section is full of news on fossil fuel industry expansion but not enough, not much at all actually, on why it'd be much better to look forward to a future with no fossils fuels at all and a stabilized atmospheric concentration of CO2.

Petit then says ...

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