Roger Pielke Jr., an environmental scientist at the University of Colorado,eviscerated Gillis’s article from several angles:

Regular readers will know that I think that the print media overall has done a pretty good job on covering the science of climate change, if not always getting the politics right….But every once in a while I see a story that is so breathtakingly bad that it is worth commenting on. Today’s installment comes from Justin Gillis at the New York Times and was published on Christmas Eve. The article is so bad that it might just be the worst piece of reporting I’ve ever seen in the Times on climate change.

New York Times environmental reporter Justin Gillis took the left-wing idea of extreme weather equaling harmful global warming to heart in his front-page Christmas Day “news analysis” lamenting the Republican block of measures that would document “climate change” more closely, in “Harsh Political Reality Slows Climate Studies Despite Extreme Year.” But an environmental scientist eviscerated Gillis’s article as “perhaps the worst piece of reporting I’ve ever seen in the Times on climate change.”

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