One Sunday in August 2004, as I set down The New York Times Book Review, it suddenly occurred to me that there was sufficient evidence to explore one of the…

‘It helps that the German media is less strict about the division between editorials and news than the news media in the United States.’

‘Americans could be forgiven for not knowing how uncontroversial this issue is among the vast majority of scientists.’

‘The challenge for me was to get the story off the Internet and into print.’

Journalists ‘find out where the bulk of evidence and expert thought lies on the truth continuum and then communicate that to audiences.’

‘Only as an afterthought did it dawn on us that the audience is the real content on the Web.’

Balanced coverage results in a ‘misleading scenario that there is a raging debate among climate-change scientists regarding humanity’s role in climate change.’

‘In an era in which digital alteration of images is increasingly easy, credibility is everything.’

A reporter describes the systemic forces that work against the story of climate change being accurately told.

In reporting on the science of global warming, journalists contend with powerful, well-funded forces using strategies created by tobacco companies.