Newspapers catch up to climate science

Or at least, The New York Times does

Is Weather Chaos Linked to Global Warming? Probably.

"The summer’s heat waves baked the eastern United States, parts of Africa and eastern Asia, and above all Russia, which lost millions of acres of wheatand thousands of lives in a drought worse than any other in the historical record.

Seemingly disconnected, these far-flung disasters are reviving the question of whether global warming is causing more weather extremes.

The collective answer of the scientific community can be boiled down to a single word: probably."

Exciting stuff! For those of us who want to see climate science taken seriously…on the front page, no less. Where the Times goes, other publications tend to follow…

Published by Kit Stolz

I'm a freelance reporter and writer based in Ventura County.

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