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https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4585709-the-mainstream-medias-climate-coverage-is-blinkered-and-condescending/

Loved this part:


The BBC host pressed the South American leader about the “oil and gas” drilling that was about to take place in the country, and the “billions” of carbon emissions that would be released as a result.

Ali stopped him in his tracks, pointing to the fact that the forest in Guyana that has been preserved “is the size of England and Scotland combined.”

“We have kept this forest alive that stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon, that you enjoy, that the world enjoys, that you don’t pay us for,” he said.

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4585709-the-mainstream-medias-climate-coverage-is-blinkered-and-condescending/

The simple question is why climate reporting isn't better...

I think the answer is that most journalists aren't capable of covering it, and most of their customers are too dumb to understand it anyway. 

The simple question is why climate reporting isn't better...

NPR editor’s tell-all confirms what we already knew about the media | The Hill

As you noted, there is a lot of herd mentality out there.  And not going with the herd has consequences.  And then there is the fact that very very few journalists have much if any training in the sciences.  

This is one reason I read Judith Curry's blog site (not so much some others who contribute).  She pretty well lays this out with hard examples, and she is NOT s "denier".  She gets called that often as a way to diminish her message.  It's predictable.

And as I often note, for most of "us", it's purely political, not technical.

I'm not sure of your point.  

The reference is not to NPR.  

Former editor excoriates NPR for bias.  

It's an interesting point, I think, about how anything "technical" or complex is rarely reported accurately or evenhandedly.  It gets "dumbed down" to a point that loses meaning, or a conclusion is set in stone before anything is disseminated.

And many humans base their "opinions" about such things based on their political views.  You won't find many liberals who think climate change is a hoax, or even that it may be real but is not that much of a problem, and you won't find many conservatives who thinks it's real and serious and needs urgent attention.

I could devise a questionaire I think that would pretty accurately assess your political views without asking a single political question.

Is you COVID vaccine up to date?

Do you view climate change as an urgent problem?

Etc.