"Last week, after a second batch of climate science emails were publicly released, I got the sense that most science and environmental reporters assigned to cover the story were holding their noses. They dutifully reported the basics, but were not inclined to treat the latest disclosures as especially newsworthy, much less as a story with new revelations or wrinkles."
"A new, deeply flawed study on the climate’s sensitivity to greenhouse gas emissions reveals just how poorly the media understand key climate science issues. It also reveals how eager some in the media are to push the mistaken message that failure to act quickly and aggressively on GHG emissions would not be catastrophic." Joe Romm writes for Climate Progess November 27, 2011.
Years and years after CNN laid off all its environmental journalists, Soledad O'Brien did a piece on mountaintop removal. Kate Sheppard says it "starts from the same tired tropes ... and misses the bigger questions."
