New York Times on 'global warming'

Chicago Saturday 27 October 2012 Editors, The New York Times Gentlepeople: The first paragraph of your Thursday 25 October article  “Both Romney and Obama Avoid Talk of Climate  Change” refers to “... a year of record-smashing  temperatures, drought and Arctic ice melt....” A Saturday 19 August 2000 Times article by John  Noble Wilford "The North Pole is melting" breathlessly  declared: "An ice-free patch of ocean about a mile wide  has opened at the very top of the world, ... more  evidence that global warming may be real...." That was followed only four days later by an equally  bedazzled climate change enthusiast's Op-Ed "In the  (Un)Frozen North" that started out: "The 19th century's  dream of an open polar sea has become the 21st  century's nightmare." Six days later, Mr. Wilford wrote another article  (Tuesday 29 August 2000) quoting another expert:  "There's nothing to be necessarily alarmed about.  There's been open water at the pole before." And on the same day, the Times made honest  journalists of themselves with this Correction: "A front-page article in the August 19, 2000 edition ...  about the sighting of open water at the North Pole  misstated the normal conditions of the sea ice there...." Arnold H Nelson  ah_nelson@yahoo.com