"The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and..."

“The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if they’re 50% of the research results. You in the public would have no idea that this is basically a done deal and that we’re on to other problems, because the journalists are trying to give it a 50/50 story. It’s not a 50/50 story. It’s not. Period.”

- Neil deGrasse Tyson, podcast interview (via dionthesocialist)