The non-hype about climate change (and malaria) - A look at two new studies and how the media has misled both the public and the sloppy authors of the Nature study

There are many reasons why the public doesn't understand how dire the climate situation is.  We have a well-funded disinformation campaign, generally poor messaging by scientists, and many progressives and environmentalists who have been persuaded to downplay talk of global warming risks.

And we have dreadful coverage by the status quo media.  The media fails in countless ways, but one of its most insidious failings is to play up the occasional study that seems to suggest the threat of human...