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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100197832/now-even-
pravda-admits-the-global-warming-jig-is-up/

It's Death of Little Nell time again in the field of climate "science." 

The New York Times � aka Pravda � has announced the closure of its 
Environment Desk. Rumours that the entire environment team, headed by Andy 
Revkin, have volunteered to be recycled into compost and spread on the 
lawn of the new billion dollar home Al Gore bought with the proceeds of 
his sale of Current TV to Middle Eastern oil interests are as yet 
unconfirmed. 

What we do know is that it's very, very sad and that all over the Arctic 
baby polar bears are weeping bitter tears of regret.

A spokesman for the New York Times, quoted in the Guardian, has reaffirmed 
the paper's commitment to environmental issues.

"We devote a lot of resources to it, now more than ever. We have not lost 
any desire for environmental coverage. This is purely a structural 
matter."

Absolutely. It's what newspapers always do when they're committed to a 
particular field: close down the entire department responsible for 
covering it.

But it's still not going to stop some mean-minded cynics sniping and 
casting aspersions, I'll bet. 

Why, some of them will be pointing out the eerie coincidence with the Met 
Office recent tacit admission that "global warming" isn't anywhere near 
what that their dodgy models predicted it would be. 

And also with NASA's recent admission that solar variation has a much more 
significant on terrestrial climate than it has hitherto been prepared to 
acknowledge. If you didn't know better, you'd almost get the impression 
that AGW theory has been so crushingly falsified that hard-headed 
newspaper executives, even ones at papers as painfully right-on as the New 
York Times, just aren't prepared to fund its promulgation any more.

What this means for similarly overstaffed environment desks at other left-
wing newspapers one can scarcely begin to imagine. Might it be that we 
never again read a piece by Leo Hickman entitled "How Do You Tell Your 
Five Year Old Son That His World Is About To Explode In A Blazing Fireball 
Because Of Man's Selfishness And Greed And Refusal To Change His 
Lifestyle?"

What, and no more Caroline Lucas essays, either on jaunty topics like "My 
plan for Britain: rationing; cold baths; the banning of cars; and 
hairshirts for everyone � to be enforced by my new green Mutaween of 
Environmental Commissars"?

And how would we cope if we never get to read any more Damian Carrington 
articles on "Official: wind farms are brilliant for bats and rare birds, 
boosting their numbers by gazillions every year � says new research by 
RenewablesUK," and "Global warming: why the latest evidence that it's 
going down is sure-fire proof that it's going up, says Met Office" and 
"How fracking poisons the water supply, steals food from the poor, 
encourages racism and causes baby kittens in wicker baskets to die in 
agony mewling for their mothers".

And what, for pity's sake, about poor George Monbiot??????