A Rocky First Review for a Climate Paper Warning of a Stormy Coastal Crisis - The New York Times

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/a-rocky-first-review-for-a-climate-paper-warning-of-a-stormy-coastal-crisis/?_r=1

Science by its very nature celebrates attempts to overthrow established results, which unavoidably makes our work look "noisy" and confusing to a non-specialist, obscuring for those outside a field what is actually well-founded inside the field. To overcome this difficulty, governments and the broader society have established assessment mechanisms in which the full range of scientists, volunteering in the public eye for the public good, provide up-to-date information on what is solid, what speculative, and what silly. The assessment results are inefficient at generating headlines, he-said/she-saids, and "clicks" on web pages, but the assessment results are far better than the latest press releases at generating reliable, useful, policy-relevant understanding.

---Steve