I'm not wild about gotcha journalism. But geez I'd love to ask some of the people writing about climate some basic questions. What are total CO2 emissions per year? What percentage is due to the US? To China? To coal? To power generation?
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I'm trying to imagine writing about basketball that eschewed all quantitative accounts of last night's big game. Most general climate writing seems a bit like discussing how good or bad LeBron looked on court last night, while ignoring points, rebounds, assists etc.
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Funny thing is: of course, there's a tonne of great books, online classes etc that are full of this stuff. I've found the IPCC report(s) surprisingly readable and interesting. But it all seems sub rosa from the pov of popular culture.
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