A news service of the U.N. that I find useful for its dispatches from developing countries asks, in an article, if there is a danger of "information overload" with the spate of alarming reports on the consequences of climate change, such as the most recent one released last week from the Global Humanitarian Forum. What to do? According to the U.N. piece,
The media are supposed to turn these numbers, reports, predictions and projections into "meaningful information" for the people who will be affected by the unfolding impact of climate change.
But then the article seemingly confuses the media with think tanks when it says that
The Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum in its climate change report, "The Anatomy of Silent Crisis," released on 29 May, attempts to do this.
First of all, as Andrew Revkin at The New York Timespointed out,
There are significant questions about the robustness of the ...
