re: Some head scratching journalism on climate change

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This is why i ask people why they are so confident that journalists are such good intermediaries of fact that one need not look at the material themselves

Journalists aren't any more skilled at understanding scientific, economic or abt other data than a regular old person with a bit of smarts

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And what's disturbing here is that it would otherwise be considered reasonable to NOT check the source material under the assumption that simple numerical data could be accurately relayed.

The main reason I checked it out of curiosity is that there were pretty glaring differences between the 2 articles. Had that not been the case, I may have ignorantly went about my business being none the wiser and would have unintentionally been ill informed.

It's just pathetic journalism on both accounts