Since this is HN, I am going to prefix this with the disclaimer that this is not a denial of climate change. Here goes: Bloomberg terminal is $24K/yr. I use

Since this is HN, I am going to prefix this with the disclaimer that this is not a denial of climate change. Here goes: Bloomberg terminal is $24K/yr. I use that as a baseline for the market value of somewhat accurate/timely information--they don't give it away! Contrast with newspapers, which are sold primarily at cost of distribution, "5 free article" news websites which are more PR-organ than journalism, and cable news--which is virtually given away to the point of ubiquity (restaurants, salons, dr's offices, etc). This whole "you are the product" biz is nothing new. Media serves its advertisers. They have to keep us exposed to the ads, and crises are effective at that--keeping us all under a sort of siege mentality--where we check compulsively as if life and limb were at stake. Actual knowledge or constructive insight will never be offered. That would diminish the effect. Instead, they offer a round-table of whores and buffoons (all billed as world-class experts, of course) to crank the despair up to 11. To go to the shrink and take the pills is to succumb to both stages of the scam. Before going there, first try disengaging from media. Grab a book off archive.org instead--preferably, an old one.