93 Percent of Wall Street Journal's Climate Op-Eds Misrepresent Science

AlterNet

File this one under "Big Surprise". The Wall Street Journal has long been revered as the standard bearer for American business journalism -- so it should be no revelation that the WSJ's op-ed page leads the pack in refutations to climate science. Addressing climate change is still considered anathema to the business community, which envisions a web of regulations and fees that will sap its collective bottom line. That aversion to climate policy translates, as it so often does, into an aversion to the climate science itself on the WSJ's opinion pages. In fact, one researcher found that over the last 3 years, the paper had published only 4 op-eds that got the science right -- and 52 that got it wrong.

Professor Scott Mandia determined those results in a little experiment he did in a guest post for Climate Progress. Here's how it worked:

The WSJ has an archive of editorials and op-eds in a category labeled Climate Change that is only available to subscribers. Between October 2008 and January 25, 2011 there were a total of 86 articles in the archive ... I scored each article using the following criteria:

(More here.)