Fact-checking the NY Times’ “Lies”

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News Review by Kip Hansen ? 4 March 2020

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The NY Times has been at it again ? this time printing bald-faced inaccuracies (some might call it lying?.).

Hiroko Tabuchi, a climate reporter for The New York Times, penned ?A Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research? in the 2 March 2020 online version of the Times. I have tried, but I have found it difficult to find anything true in the story.

Here is Tabuchi?s lede:

?An official at the Interior Department embarked on a campaign that has inserted misleading language about climate change ? including debunked claims that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is beneficial ? into the agency?s scientific reports, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

The misleading language appears in at least nine reports, including environmental studies and impact statements on major watersheds in the American West that…

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