Has the American media erred in reporting on GW deniers while neglecting...

[XenonEmeritus]

...the other end of the GW bell curve? That is, many scientists believe that the warming trend is far more serious than what the U.S. press has reported. And have the climate scientists who are most emphatic in calling for aggressive action by the world's governments been virtually ignored?

 

[TexasR]

Nope. Climatology is a very inexact science. The global warming proponents fail to understand the failings of the statistical methods used to promote the idea that man is causing the global warming trend of the last 50 years. Anyone that can state this is an undeniable fact fails to realize just how uncertain these computer models truly are.

 

[GaryF]

The media should be ashamed of itself - if it had any shame. In addition to being motivated by ratings instead of journalism, they have been seduced by the power inside the Beltway. They are nothing but groupies and mouthpieces for the politicians they cover.

Many conservatives think the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) should be done away with because it is slightly less corruptible than media that are dependent on advertisers. There is a reason that the BBC is still considered the most objective and reputable news service in the world - and that reason is freedom from the need to generate revenue in order to exist.

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Bravozulu –

>”Many scientists believe practically any crackpot theory you can come up with.”

Give one example – or even just a coherent belief system that would support such a contention.

>”Why would anyone with a brain care what someone believes when their theories are pure speculation that is not validated by anything in the real world.”

That is absurd. Climate science and the basis for AGW are as empirical as it gets.

Besides, do you rely on modern physicians and medical science for your healthcare? If you do then you are putting your life in the hands of those who practice the scientific theory of evolution (without which all biological knowledge is suspect and every life science collapses). If that theory is false then your physician has no more validity than a Witch Doctor.

 

[Ericc]

"many scientists believe that the warming trend is far more serious than what the U.S. press has reported."

That is strange because according to Phil Jones, a scientists who strongly believes in global warming, we have not had any statistically significant warming of the past 15 years, and a slight cooling trend over the past eight.