CLIMATE CHANGE SCEPTICISM BEGINS APPEARING IN MORE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA OUTLETS
February 6th 2010 06:02
Conservative columnist for The Australian newspaper, Christopher Pearson writes this weekend that “Last weekend looks likely to have been a tipping point in the media debate on climate change in the English-speaking world.“
The two daily papers in Britain which have campaigned most single-mindedly on the urgent need for action on man-made global warming have begun to change their tune.”
He cites the two newspapers as The Independent and The Guardian.
Pearson writes that what makes the stories ion those newspapers remarkable “is less the content than the sources. Since about 2004 neither paper has previously displayed any intellectual curiosity over the possibility that the global warming paradigm might be open to question. Nor have they given balanced coverage to problems like ‘the hockey stick graph’, a statistical trick that purported to abolish the medieval warming period.
“It may be that the papers are testing the waters with a view to a more nuanced approach to unfolding evidence. Alternatively, their editors may have concluded that not covering fresh facts that don't fit the theory is a sure-fire way of losing readers and reputation. Asked about The Guardian's change of tack, a spokesman said: ‘The Guardian editorial line is that global warming is happening and caused by human activities, but that does not mean we are blind to contradictory evidence.’”
Pearson also cited several Australian news organisations that now carry more sceptical climate change items, which is doubly interesting given that there is much speculation that the coming Australian federal elections might be fought on climate change issues.
The two daily papers in Britain which have campaigned most single-mindedly on the urgent need for action on man-made global warming have begun to change their tune.”
He cites the two newspapers as The Independent and The Guardian.
Pearson writes that what makes the stories ion those newspapers remarkable “is less the content than the sources. Since about 2004 neither paper has previously displayed any intellectual curiosity over the possibility that the global warming paradigm might be open to question. Nor have they given balanced coverage to problems like ‘the hockey stick graph’, a statistical trick that purported to abolish the medieval warming period.
Pearson also cited several Australian news organisations that now carry more sceptical climate change items, which is doubly interesting given that there is much speculation that the coming Australian federal elections might be fought on climate change issues.
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