Is That Climate Change Article BS?

WHY-WHY-NOTWhat’s true is there are a lot of posts, articles, books and periodicals that discuss global warming and climate change on the Internet. There will be more along the road to COP-21 in Paris this December. What’s more true is a lot of it is bullshit.

Blog for Iowa recommends the handy climate change BS guide, “How to Tell if the Article About Climate You are Reading is B.S., in Four Easy Steps,” an article on ClimateProgress by Joe Romm.

Romm delineates these four steps:

Skip climate articles by people who think the problem is hopeless or intractable — because it most certainly is not.

Skip articles written by George Will and his ilk.

Skip articles—especially longer climate essays—by authors who don’t explicitly tell you what temperature target or CO2 concentration target they embrace and how they’d go about attaining it.

Skip articles embracing Orwellian terms like “good Anthropocene.”

Check out the entire article here.

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