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Part of good journalism is to seek out a range of viewpoints rather than just present a story through one lens. But a corollary journalistic responsibility is to weigh the credibility and relevance of viewpoints.

One topic area where the interplay between these two principles comes under particular scrutiny is climate change.

When I recently wrote about the proposed Green New Deal, some of the feedback was along the line of 鈥測ou seem to just accept climate change without presenting other viewpoints.鈥� With the climate issue moving higher on humanity鈥檚 radar, this is an important discussion.

Yes, there鈥檚 an 鈥�uncertainty factor鈥� in any predictions about how Earth鈥檚 climate will be affected by a given level of greenhouse gases. Or will clouds disappear from the sky due to climate change, as suggests is possible? That鈥檚聽hard for scientists to say. But such questions are different from witnessing substantive debate in the scientific community over the basic challenge of . We at the Monitor will keep watching and listening to the research.

We will also dig into the rigor with which that research has been done and how that relates to the strong consensus within the climate science profession that human emissions are now affecting changes in Earth鈥檚 climate. I鈥檒l also listen to a featuring voices skeptical of mainstream climate science with that same level of critical rigor.

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