I Made an Error. I Now Correct It.

So, it turns out that a lot of us got so wrapped up in debunking George Will's serious errors about climate science that we were blinded to a much more mundane error, and thus unwittingly repeated it. In his original controversial column, "Dark Green Doomsayers," Will referred to an organization called the "Arctic Climate Research Center" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Problem is, there's just no such thing. Yeah, there are Arctic ice experts there, and a website and everything--but no center. But many of us didn't imagine this kind of mistake possible and so repeatedly referred to the same nonexistent organization. Whoops. Brad Johnson at the Wonk Room was the first to catch the error, which apparently originates with one Michael Asher. Carl Zimmer has already run his own correction. I now join the crowd. Sorry folks, we try to avoid these things...and when something like this slips through, we correct it promptly.