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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Replying to @michael_nielsen
I don't disagree, but climate coverage isn't too different from other popular science topics. Popular science writing seems to have always provided just a cursory summary. Think Time mag story on medicine vs a SI story on baseball recruiting. Maybe thats what readers can bear?
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Replying to @dbenyamin
Popular science is mostly for entertainment, & it doesn't bug me that it's mostly written that way. Climate is, notionally, about the future of civilization - certainly, many ppl writing about it write that way, even if they're not actually writing seriously.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
I wouldn't agree about such distinction -- it may be entertainment for you, but for many it is the most prominent src of info. Don't articles about say, high fat or economic collapse strike a similar tone?
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Fair point, though my impression - maybe wrong! - is that those kinds of articles are not most of what's written about popular science.
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