Misleading Newspaper Articles on Climate Stir Firestorm

Astonishingly misleading OpEds published over the weekend in the Wall Street Journal ("No Need to Panic About Global Warming") and Daily Mail ("Forget global warming — it’s Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again)") have stirred up a hornets' nest. There is no need for me to dissect the rampant (and long-debunked) misinformation contained in these propaganda pieces. Others have done so quite effectively:

• Met Office in the Media: 29 January 2012 « Met Office News Blog
• Dismal Science at the Wall Street Journal - The Equation
• Scientists Challenging Climate Science Appear to Flunk Climate Economics - NYTimes.com
• While temperatures rise, denialists reach lower | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
• Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate — Letters to the Editor - WSJ.com
• Wall Street Journal rapped over climate change stance | Environment | The Guardian
• The Latest Denialist Plea for Climate Change Inaction
• William M. Briggs has misunderstood a high-school level data graph : Greg Laden's Blog
• Remarkable Editorial Bias on Climate Science at the Wall Street Journal - Forbes
• Chris Mooney | In Which Climate “Skeptics” Drop the Lysenko Bomb. No, I’m Not Kidding….
• Panic Attack: Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Finds 16 Scientists to Push Pollutocrat Agenda With Long-Debunked Climate Lies | ThinkProgress
• On Global Warming, Should You Trust the Wall Street Journal, or Chevron, ExxonMobil and the Defense Department??
• The Wall Street Journal, Again | Planet3.0
• The Daily Mail Prints Climate Nonsense « Anti-Climate Change Extremism in Utah
• New British Studies Confirms Climate Change Consensus, Daily Mail Gets It Totally Wrong : Greg Laden's Blog
• dotderry.pdf | Crocodoc
• Climate scientists not cowed by relentless climate change deniers | Print Edition - Physics Today
• Climate Communication | Setting the Record Straight on Climate Change: Experts Respond
• A Flawed Global Warming Analysis in the Wall Street Journal