that the evidence for "climate change" is so elusive that the CIA has been enlisted to find out where it's hiding! I guess the author has been living under a rock and hasn't heard that "climate change" or "global warming" is a hoax. Something that the more informed people of the world have known for decades.

"Reporters have to ... avoid presenting uncertainties as a matter of balance that's addressed via material from crackpots with credentials." In other words, reporters should fall in line with what one "expert" says and ignore everything else. Who decides whether one expert is a "crackpot with credentials" and another is not? That is a matter of opinion, based on one's own personal views. Thus, we're having one set of political or religious views forced upon the rest of society and disguised as "science."