Quote Originally Posted by Geoffrey S
Overexposure could be worse. I think it's more the removal of the actual scientific debate from headlines, replaced with the essentially political side of things (on either side here) which anyone can see for what it is: a sham which isn't about the actual issues at hand.
Well said! These days it's harder to find a graph of all temperature increase data, than it is to find 500 bloggers, politicians, lobbyist groups and general scumbags speaking about how the global warming should be solved by handing them millions of dollars. Worst example I came across lately, was some company owner who said we should stop recycling and taking care of heavy metal pollutions (which are very easy to solve, and in fact all of us are, knowing or not, actually taking care of this at the moment), and instead buy products from his company. Truth is, his company's impact on environment will be 1/1,000,000 of the damage he would cause if people would listen to his BS about not keeping the current systems for reducing heavy metals emission into lakes and similar.

The matter of most interest to everybody is exactly how serious the problem is, with as exact numerical data as possible. (Most) People are not too stupid to realize what needs to be done when they see the hard facts. No, the current mass media coverage focuses less on the hard scientific data than on:
1. presenting a person who is working with the issue, showing how he toasts his breads in the morning or what clothes he is wearing
2. talking about some useless meeting that is being held about the issue - meetings were total idiots who know almost nothing about the issue meet, after getting there by polluting jets, to discuss whether their Dom Perignon or Beluga caviar was most fresh today
3. talking about people who are talking about people who are talking about global warming
4. telling what the consequences could be if the consequences of the consequences of global warming would arise
5. trying to undermine the credibility of the global warming research by not mentioning anything except bogus reports and research made by lobbyist organizations such as oil companies and weapons manufacturers who are seeking to prevent a solution to the global warming problem from happening