Sloppy Reporting and Climate Change

Referring to the newly-formed iceberg four times the size of Manhattan which broke from Greenland over the weekend, John Rudolf over at the New York Times writes, in a piece titled Iceberg as a Metaphor for Inaction, 
"Despite the scientific uncertainty, Mr Markey used the image of the ice island as a logjam of Republican opposition to climate change legislation in the Senate," and then goes on to quote Markey.

What's more disturbing than Markey jumping at the opportunity to bash Republicans is that 'scientific uncertainty' comes into this at all.

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