The media got it all wrong on the new US climate report
By Bjorn Lomborg
November 28, 2018 | 8:37pm | Updated
Activists tend to exaggerate the impacts of climate change while underestimating the costs of tackling it. The reception to the new US climate assessment was instructive. The report largely attempts to remain soberly scientific, and follows the even more careful global report by the United Nations’ climate-science panel, known as the IPCC.
Sadly, accurate science doesn’t make for good television; predicting the end of times does.
Among many others, widely quoted climate scientist Michael Mann talked up the report to NPR and CNN, saying its predictions are already borne out in today’s “unprecedented weather extremes.â€
https://nypost.com/2018/11/28/the-media-got-it-all-wrong-on-the-new-us-climate-report/
