New York Times undermines climate realities by hiding behind scientists

David Gelles, Somini Sengupta, Keith Bradsher, and Brad Plumer reporting for the New York Times (emphasis mine):

Burning fossil fuels for more than 200 years has helped create the modern world while delivering great prosperity to developed countries such as the United States, which ranks historically as the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. But it has also led to what scientists now say is a growing crisis. The carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by the burning of oil, gas and coal acts as a heat-trapping blanket, leading to rapid global warming.

Attributing climate facts to scientists is a widespread practice among journalists. Of course, they are technically correct because scientists do say greenhouse gas emissions lead to a growing climate crisis, but this seemingly innocuous framing unnecessarily undermines our lived climate realities. You won’t go around telling people “the Earth is round, according to scientists”, so why would you use such qualifiers for climate facts?

P.S. The rest of the article is a good read.