This particular story, entitled " Foraminifera tell a Story of Climate Change"although wrote for the general public it used some technical language and no sensationalism. It did use some floaty journalistic language but it was done in a nice way- " It's strange to think the fossils are singing a song about the environment in which they lived".
It is important for the public to understand how scientists have retrodicted the climates of the past in order to understand the future of our planet.
The article incorporates a small interview with Miriam Katz a well known climate scientist and palaeontologist, and even includes a link to her personal page so that the reader can check her (impressive) credentials, and there is even a link to the research page with more detailed information on Katz and her work with foraminifera. If only every media story could do this? We would have a more well informed generation able to decipher themselves what is journalistic sensationalism, created to sell papers and what is hard, cold scientific fact.
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