Originally Posted by MTBLover

OK- I'll bite. As a scientist, I can tell you that you should never, ever trust the press for scientific reporting. The fact that the various "crises du jour" fade out after a (usually short) time, should tell you something- journalists are in one business only, and that's to sell TV ad time, papers, or magazines. That, and the fact that so many errors slip through the editing process. Some things journalists should just stay away from- the vast majority of them don't have the intellectual equipment to handle solid scientific reporting. And those that do are bound and beholden to editors and a reading public that don't have that equipment either. Sorry for sounding so bitter, but so much of the controversy about global warming (and a zillion other problems) has been politicized by the press.