It matters little. Most blogs and journals are not read by the silent majority, and it is that majority that make decisions, not elitist pontifcators in any medium.

Both journals and blogs often distort the truth.
I think blog posts are better because they provide for there and then comment and perhaps chance to air the truth.

Whatever, just look at the waste of words and time about Co2 emissions agenda that has led to increased cost of energy plus massive disruption to business and household budget's and livelihood.

Yes blog posts are better

Why not? Neither intelligence nor retentive memory are dispensed in elite universities, but rather by nature and genes?

One recalls at the start of WW1, most if not all Queen's commissions almost always went to the sons of the privileged elite landed gentry, rather than the most intelligent or capable!

Thus some fellows with IQ's roughly equal to the ambient temperature, where given charge of real men, for whom, were thought of as little more than expendable tin soldiers or robots! WW11, was a little different ,where our two best generals were a banana farmer and a steam engineer? Not indoctrinated acidemics!

Journalism functions best when reporters report the facts rather than as seems all too the case, opinion? Or selectively chosen facts that can be so arranged as to distort/conceal rather than illuminate the truth?

And opinion pieces should reflect public opinion rather than mould or massage it into something that merely confirms the conformational bias of the owner or editor in chief!

Blogs and social media allow the truth and or public opinion to be aired and ventilated, even when accompanied by atrocious grammar.

People often say they are Christian even when they don't believe in a creator or organized religion, just the mighty irrefutable truth! Not for nothing is it writ large, know the truth and the truth will set you free!

Simply put, nobody can own their own facts, thus we have an ovoid world inside a solar system, somewhere near the rim of the milky way. And real climate change, created in part by humanity!

We know what needs to be done to reverse it? And opposed on all sides by vested interest, bought and paid for politicians and their tame academics, keen as always to redirect proper public scrutiny elsewhere?

Or into irrelevance? Or sent flying into ever decreasing circles to eventually disappear up its own fundamental orifice.

As the Bob Katter said, we need a royal commision, if only to expose the rorts, rip offs and or corruption in the energy sector?

That said, I generally agree with your general agreement.
Alan B.

Anyone can write blog posts. And that should be a good thing. Alas many people judge a blog post not by the quality of its data and analysis, but by whether its conclusions fit their prejudices.

This is particularly true in the area of climate science, where denialists continue to claim there's been no warming since 1998 because a five year old blog post says so. Or where bloggers discover something climatologists have always known about, assume the climatologists to be ignorant of it, misinterpret its implications, and claim it invalidates what the climatologists claim.

...As has previously happened on this site!

Come on Aidan, I don't know any climate denialists claiming there has been no warming since 1998 these days.

What they are proving is that there has been a cooling in many parts of the planet. Just no warming is so passé.

Hasbeen,
"Come on Aidan, I don't know any climate denialists claiming there has been no warming since 1998 these days."
Isn't Leo Lane still making that claim?
If not, when did he stop?

"What they are proving is that there has been a cooling in many parts of the planet."
And how many decades has it been since the climatologists first warned that global warming could cool some parts of the world by altering ocean currents?