"Chicken Little may claim the sky is falling. A journalist's job is to check it out."

Via Jeff Jacoby's 'Chicken Little and global warming' (HT: BizzyBlog):

...Perhaps the Chicken Littles are right and the sky really is falling, but that opinion is hardly unanimous. There are quite a few skeptical scientists, including eminent climatologists, who doubt the end-of-the-world scenario. Why don't journalists spend more time covering all sides of the debate instead of just parroting the scaremongers?...

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