Matt Ridley by Tara Hunt and Herb, some rights reserved
“The implications for your credibility extend beyond your energy and climate change coverage. Why should any reader who knows about energy and climate change respect your political analysis, your business coverage, even your sports reports?”
This week, it emerged that a group of prominent lords have written a letter accusing the Times of ‘distorted’ and ‘poor quality’ coverage of climate change (including the above quote). At the centre of their concern is the worry that the paper appears to repeatedly peddle the lines of a dubious campaign group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, and one of its ‘scientific’ advisers. As the peers wrote:
