Advertisement Continue reading the main story“It was grossly overblown,” Mr. Ward added, “and that was clearly what he was trying to do.”Efforts to reach Mr. Rose were not successful. But the article made Dr. Bates into something of a hero in the community of climate change denialists and others who claim that some climate scientists are politicizing the subject. “In this case the newspaper article was considered to have gone well beyond those views,” Mr. Ward said. Mr. Ward said The Mail on Sunday had a long history of publishing articles that were inaccurate and misleading about climate change. “We’re hopeful that following this the editor will be somewhat more skeptical about stories that Mr. Rose brings to them,” he said.

Source: New York Times September 17, 2017 00:22 UTC