“A warmer Canada would improve our lives in these and other ways too numerous to list. Global warming? Let’s hope so,” he wrote in June 2006. [8]

Thanks for the sources, Ian. I agree with Jeff: not just false, or lazy as you say. It’s really dangerous journalism.

No Andrew- you’re paid to have a healthy sense of skepticism and know when it’s raining and when someone’s peeing on your foot. Where’s your documentation for the “growing number of climatologists” claim? Did you check Ball’s ties to corporations who are paying them to say it? I doubt it- at least you didn’t report it. That’s called lazy journalism and is not what people expect you are being paid for. It probably took Ian all of a few minutes to do your job for you.

If that is Pereira’s idea of what he’s paid to do he’s not a journalist but a hack and a shill. The job is to “publish” the “truth” or as close to it as is humanly possible and the skill and art is to recognize total BS when you see it, not to seek out someone to say the opposite of what everyone else is saying.

But sad to say that’s what passes for reporting these days in most corporate newsrooms, which is one of the main reasons why people nowadays distrust the press.