Climate scientists critiquing media climate reports

A group of loosely organized climate scientists now have a website through which they can evaluate the scientific accuracy of media news and opinion columns addressing climate change science.

Take as an example the recent U.S. Global Change Research Program update on how continued climate change is expected to affect human health.

Two days after release of that report on April 4, Danish political scientist and author Bjorn Lomborg wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal titled: “An Overheated Climate Alarm.”

The USGCRP report, Lomborg wrote, “reads as a political sledgehammer that hypes the bad and skips over the good. It also ignores inconvenient evidence – like the fact that cold kills many more people than heat.”

Read the Yale Climate Connections story - “Scientists Critiquing Media Climate Reports.”