..for trustworthy assessments of controversial technical issues -- first there's their undeniable far-left editorial position, and second, their thinly-dusuised contempt for technical issues in their news stories, explaining the lack of any technical knowledge of their writers and editors.

It is not an effective argument that a factual assertion can't be trusted because the source is ideologically tainted, and then produce a set of assertions from sources equally tainted in the other direction.

The question is, what facts can be found, from literature and from new research, to test competing hypotheses.

I find the 'underground press' that's skeptical of mainstream media mantra on global warming to have numerous good ideas worthy of attention and evaluation -- and I'd start with Lomberg and with the kangaroo-court condemnations of his work from the ideologues of the left.