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The Sunday edition of The New York Times had a story about Mexico City's water crisis on the front page.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/world/americas/mexico-city-water.html

The very first sentence:

>A collision of climate change, urban sprawl and poor infrastructure has pushed Mexico City to the brink of a profound water crisis.

Buried in the article, however, is this sentence:

>There is no evidence that Mexico’s drought is attributable to climate change.

Worse, this sentence appears next to a large, bold call-out that reads: "unchecked growth, a changing climate and a crumbling system."

If we generously interpret the article, the "changing climate" ostensibly refers to Mexico City's rise in temperature over the last 100 years, which they admit:

>That could partly be because of climate change, and partly because of the city’s exponential growth, with concrete and asphalt replacing trees and wetlands.

The New York Times is no stranger to the "heat island" effect caused by city concrete and asphalt, having reported on it before. Here are just three of many examples:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/climate/heat-waves-cities.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/texas-heat-poverty-islands-san-antonio.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/nyregion/climate-inequality-nyc.html

So while there actually *is* evidence for the heat island effect, NYT framed the article *from the first sentence* as a climate change story based on a "could be." Then, literally next to the sentence where they admit that there's no evidence that climate change has caused Mexico City's water woes, they print a big call-out that includes the word "climate change."

I expect better from The New York Times. I'm glad the facts were all there but I have to wonder about the quality of the editing.

It is clear, however, that there is a clear editorial bias to frame stories as "climate change stories.

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Entry ID: 57147
Repository: Axioma AXP
Dataset: arrmlet/reddit_dataset_36
Total Entries: 100,000