Recently the BMJ—the British Medical Association's journal and one of the oldest medical journals—wrote an editorial imploring the World Health Organization to declare climate change a public health emergency. At the end, the editorial compares the health risks from climate change to Ebola, pointing out that the deaths from the disease "will pale into insignificance when compared" to the effects of unchecked climate change.
Predictably, this has enraged the deniers. The first out of the gate was the Daily Mail, reporting the same day the BMJ published the editorial on the "fury" it caused and quoting a think-tank that "slams" the BMJ's "alarmist" claims. How they were able to know there was such a fury the day the editorial was released is impressive, since the major denier blogs expressed their rage after the Daily Mail story went out!
Reading the Daily Mail story, however, it quickly becomes clear how they were able to so quickly capture the denier's rage: they talked to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). You may remember them as the group recently found to be operating more as a political campaign group than the educational "think tank" they claim to be.
So, in the end, we see that the Daily Mail continues the sad tradition of false balance by unquestioningly parroting a dishonest political group's commentary and disparaging one of the oldest and most prestigious medical journals on the planet.