Regarding Bill Gates' Climate Talk At The Big Sun Valley Billionaire Confab

The re-tweeter, Mr. Revkin, was the New York Times' reporter on climate change for fourteen years, including 2 1/2 years running the in-house news blog "Dot.Earth".

~So many of the attendees flew in on private jets, to hear the climate change talk, that the air space from as far afield as Michigan and Canada had to be temporarily closed.~ https://t.co/9Oh2DGTg0X

— Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ (@Revkin) July 10, 2021

Here's the Daily Mail piece in the link:

Bill Gates gives speech demanding action on climate change to moguls who flew into Sun Valley on private jets: Michael Bloomberg, Anderson Cooper and Diane von Furstenberg enjoy penultimate day of 'billionaire summer camp'

I'm sure there is a reason that Daily Mail headlines run to 799 words but I don't know what it is.

On the other hand, when the New York Times made this move in 2010 we understood immediately: Mr. Revkin wasn't being hysterical enough as a straight reporter so the Times was going to give him more space and tell him to get with the program or else. 

Thursday, April 1, 2010 

Journalism: "Dot Earth Moves to NYT Opinion Section"

I'm sure there will be commentary from all sides. In the meantime here's the straight poop from the Columbia Journalism Review's The Observatory blog:

After two-and-a-half years and 940 posts as a news blog, Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth site will be moving to the Opinion section of The New York Times’s Web site, according to an announcement he posted Wednesday afternoon.

Revkin, who was a staff reporter at the paper from 1995 until he took a buyout at the end of December, launched the environment and sustainability blog in October 2007 and has continued writing it since leaving daily reporting.....