Global warming newsmaker gets readers heated up
Harry Fuller Executive editor, CNET News.com
Harry Fuller escaped from television work to be executive editor at CNET News.com.
"Climate change" sounds almost neutral. "Global warming" is a much hotter phrase. Either can now easily stir up debate among CNET News.com readers.
CO2, water vapor, greenhouse effect, redistribution of wealth, conspiracy, hoax, Greenland, glaciers--all these get a going over. Some of the talkback postings get into the science behind the politics around climate change. Don't you wish you could be around in a hundred years to see who's right?
Right now, you can at least see the climate change debate by reading today's newsmaker with Stanford University scientist Terry Root.