The issue focused on climate change because scientists believe carbon dioxide emissions have greatly accelerated warming since the Industrial Revolution. Scientists argue that scientists don't fully understand climate change and scientists aren't scientifically equipped to evaluate scientific literature or assess scientific findings in science journalism. Some academics argued that NASA scientists didn't properly convey scientific evidence about climate change in its Science Magazine articles. The scientist magazine published research showing that NASA researchers incorrectly characterized scientific studies they reviewed as contradicting NASA scientists. Scientists criticized NASA's Scientific Assessment Reports (SAM), which represent