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Media bias

  • There is a clear consensus among climate scientists about the causes and dangers of global warming, but there is much confusion among the general public and among politicians. This article points out that much of the confusion is caused by a direct campaign to spread doubt, aided by media sources which treat it as a… Read more

  • Spencer and Braswell published an article in Remote Sensing that claimed that carbon dioxide was not the cause of global warming, in opposition to accepted climate science. The paper was found to have significant errors, which were compounded by James Taylor at Forbes magazine when he sensationalized the article and presented his opinion of it… Read more

  • Though there is a scientific consensus on global warming, the public is confused about the issue. There exists an misinformation pipeline that speedily takes misinformation from skeptics journal articles and delivers it to major news outlets before the information can be debunked. The solution to this problem is for those who report the news to… Read more

  • Few topics have engendered as many claims and counterclaims of media bias as has global warming. Certainly, there is much bias in the reporting of climate science and that is the main reason the average person is confused or misinformed. Read more