Science has triumphed recently by forecasting Hurricane Sandy's path and predicting President Obama's re-election, Larry Pryor writes at Online Journalism Review. Now, Pryor says, science writers need to educate the public on climate change models: "Effort is now being spent on making scientists into better communicators, but more might be accomplished if mainstream journalists ... made themselves better acquainted with satellite technology and its impact on science."
November 23, 2012