Whistleblower: ‘I knew people would misuse this.’ They did - to attack climate science | Dana Nuccitelli

Fake news propagates through the conservative media to the halls of Congress where science is under attack
This weekend, conservative media outlets launched an attack on climate scientists with a manufactured scandal. The fake news originated from an accusation made by former NOAA scientist John Bates about a 2015 paper by some of his NOAA colleagues. The technical term to describe the accusation is ‘a giant nothingburger,’ as Bates clarified in an interview with E&E News:The iss