Indeed.
Blaming climate scientists for the lack of good climate change reporting (or even calling climate change into doubt because of the shoddy reporting) strikes me as a bit backwards. Are we blaming doctors for the lack of good health reporting? Physicists for all the "Oh Noes! LHC is going to destroy the world!" bollocks? True, most of these groups probably should be trying harder, but *some* of them certainly are - Ben Goldacre in the case of medicine, Brian Cox for physics, and e.g. James Hansen and Stefan Rahmstorf for climate change. All legitimate experts in their fields that are doing a lot of public media work.

By the way Vipros, I sort of agree (or at least sympathize) with your point about CO2 being over-emphasized, at least as far as energy and transport policy goes. There are plenty of reasons to burn less coal and oil, climate change being only one of them (albeit quite an important one).
(julius, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 16:26, 1 reply)

I totally agree with what you are saying here
and the media are responsible for the reporting of this stuff, and let's face it, we know they aren't that bright.

look at the people you were at school with who did media studies....

you have arrived at my original point, in at least semi-agreement, so the slandering can cease!

Intelligent debate, ACTIVATE!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 16:44, closed)

I think we can leave it at that.
Pub time!
(julius, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 17:03, closed)

yeah, bit late for debate...
I've got band practice to get to....
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 17:06, closed)