Times's climate change coverage 'distorted' and 'poor quality'

Newspaper is losing people's trust on its global warming coverage, say group of UK's leading climate advisers and top scientists in letter to the editor

The Times newspaper has been criticised for "poor quality" and "distorted coverage" of global warming by a group including some of the UK's most eminent scientists, the chair of the government's official advisers on climate change and a former chair of oil giant Shell.

"If you lose trust, you lose everything; and on this issue, you are losing trust," said the group, in a letter to the Times editor, John Witherow, seen by the Guardian.