Climate contrarians appear to be running damage control in the media before the next IPCC report is published
Read the whole article in the guardian, 16 September 2013: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/16/climate-change-contrarians-5-stages-denial?CMP=twt_gu
Source/credit: 350.org
More on the issue:
Global Warming Is Very Real (Rolling Stone)
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warming-is-very-real-20130912
Climate Change Report From UN Introduces Purple Color To Depict Worsening Climate Risks (Associated Press)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/13/climate-change-report-un_n_3918823.html
Rupert Murdoch's Newspapers Mislead Public On Climate Change and Environment (DeSmog Blog)
http://www.desmogblog.com/rupert-murdoch-s-newspapers-mislead-public-climate-change-and-environment
Dollars for Deniers: Big Oil Funds Climate Science Denialism (Daily Kos)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/26/1182365/-Dollars-for-Deniers-Big-Oil-Funds-Climate-Science-Denialism/
U.N. Climate Panel Endorses Ceiling on Global Emissions - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/28/science/global-climate-change-report.html
What 95% certainty of warming means to scientists - AP Article
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/what-95-certainty-warming-means-scientists
IPCC climate report: human impact is 'unequivocal' - The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/27/ipcc-climate-report-un-secretary-general
Chart: 2/3rds of Global Solar PV Has Been Installed in the Last 2.5 Years - GreenTech
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/chart-2-3rds-of-global-solar-pv-has-been-connected-in-the-last-2.5-years
Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis - IPCC
http://www.climatechange2013.org/
PRESS RELEASE: Sceptical Climate Part 2: Climate Science in Australian Newspapers
Australian print media outlets produce a substantial amount of journalism that is sceptical about evidence of human-induced climate change, despite very high levels of scientific certainty, according to a new report published today by the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
Sceptical Climate Part 2: Climate Science in Australian Newspapers
http://sceptical-climate.investigate.org.au/part-2/
The report, Sceptical Climate: Climate Science in Australian Newspapers, is the largest and most detailed report to date on how Australian journalists report climate science, and follows the ACIJ’s first report http://sceptical-climate.investigate.org.au on climate change reporting published in 2011.
“If you believe that the main obligation of journalists is to the public’s right to know, the results of this study are truly alarming,” said Tom Morton, Associate Professor of Journalism at UTS and ACIJ director.
“This report clearly demonstrates that important and influential sections of the Australian media are failing in their responsibility to provide their audience with information they need to make informed choices on a matter of vital public interest.
“Thus they are failing to fulfill one of the most important roles of a free press in a liberal democracy,” Dr Morton said.
The report’s author, investigative journalist and researcher Professor Wendy Bacon, said along with previous research the findings of this study suggest that Australia may have the highest concentration of scepticism in its media in the world.
“Our analyses of three months of coverage in ten major Australian newspapers revealed a decline of 20 per cent in coverage of climate science between February to April 2011 and the same period in 2012. More disturbing was the finding that the overall coverage became decidedly more sceptical in 2012,” Professor Bacon said.
Nearly all of the scepticism is produced by News Corporation, which owns more than two-thirds of Australia’s print media. Fairfax Media’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Age accept the consensus position on anthropogenic climate change and published only 9 and 6 articles respectively which might suggest to readers that the consensus position was in doubt.
“Such high levels of scepticism should be a matter of concern to the Australian public, governments, the scientific community and journalists,” Professor Bacon said.
Download full report here: http://sceptical-climate.investigate.org.au/part-2
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