Climate deniers get more media play than scientists: study

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[PARIS] Climate deniers have garnered far more media attention than prominent climate scientists over the years, fuelling public confusion and slowing the response to global warming, researchers reported Tuesday. Read more at The Business Times.

"Climate change contrarians have successfully organised a strong voice within politics and science communication," noted the authors, led by Alexander Petersen at the University of California at Merced.

Over the last year, public concern over global warming has grown dramatically, sparked in part by an October UN report warning that only a wholesale overhaul of the global economy and consumption patterns can forestall climate chaos. The"alternative view" - that warming is caused by the sun and not CO2 emissions - is thoroughly discredited, and the magazine was compelled within hours to remove the piece.

 

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