Press Is the Enemy of Climate

It’s easier to tell a story of good vs. evil than to understand the science.

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Dec. 4, 2018 6:41 p.m. ET

There are lessons in the media’s psychiatric moment last week over the newly published U.S. National Climate Assessment.

Let’s give the New York Times credit. It was braver than just about every other news organization when it said, in its lead sentence, the “damage will knock as much as 10 percent off the size of the American economy by century’s end.”

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