Last week, many folks noted Washington Post climate change reporter Juliet Eilperin's dig at her colleague George Will in a piece on Arctic sea ice decline. Well, this week Will's name appears yet again in one of Eilperin's articles, this time a profile of the State Department's top climate negotiator Todd Stern:
[Stern] was greeted with enthusiastic applause there [Germany], but back home his comments prompted an immediate backlash: On April 2, Washington Post columnist and global-warming skeptic George Will published a column mocking Stern for saying in Bonn that Washington will be "fervently" engaged in international climate talks. Will questioned the wisdom of efforts to reduce carbon emissions that "supposedly will reverse warming, which is allegedly occurring" because of human activity.
On one level, it's just a quote; then again, what is it doing there, if not to highlight and further call out a colleague's dubious claims? The saga continues....
