Jeff Tollefson

Jeff Tollefson is a reporter and writer for Nature, a weekly science journal. He has previously worked for Congressional Quarterly as well as the Billings Gazette. He has won many accolades as a science reporter. As far as reliability goes, I would say that I trust a scientific journal but am skeptical because he is not a scientist. After reading one of his articles, "The Case of the Missing Heat" I have to say that I'm not persuaded to thinking that we are not experiencing global warming. Although he claims that skeptics as well as scientists are convinced that they previously overestimated the severity of the effects of greenhouse gases, I think he and those supposed people are focusing too too short term. While he appears to make valid points, it is my opinion that he is further illustrates the "skeptic" view of global warming that is shown on the figure below.

Figure 1: Skeptics and Realists Views of Global Warming

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