Hurricane Katrina, Snowmageddon, the Hottest Decade on Record ; more and more extreme weather events are capturing front page coverage of our news as Global Warming is taking center stage as a matter of national concern. Unfortunately it seems that the media is ill-prepared to inform an increasingly worried public, at least judging by the lack of understanding by journalists of even basic fundamentals of Climate Science. Whether it’s a NPR’s Science Writer telling a listener that Global Warming and Climate Change are the same thing (they’re not), or a New York Times reporter writing that there is a debate about Global Warming (there isn’t), journalists are as often hurting the public understanding of Climate Science as much as they are helping, if not more so. The result is that, even as the science gets better, recent polls show the public is growing less confident about the certainty of Global Warming rather than more.