"You won't get the nations of the planet to subject themselves to unbelievably expensive CO2 measures based on science which is still under debate"
They already are, cuz they aren't in denial. “The European Union as a whole will over-deliver on its Kyoto target” eea.europa.eu
That's only the US, and some of that slack is being taken up by states. The rest of the world listens to the National Academies, not the Denial Industry.
A new RISJ study of climate change coverage in six countries suggests that newspapers in the UK and the US have given far more column space to the voices of climate sceptics than the press in Brazil, France, India and China. More than 80 per cent of the times that sceptical voices were included, they were in pieces in the UK and US press, according to the research.
The study, Poles Apart – The international reporting of climate scepticism, shows that 44 per cent of all the articles in which sceptical voices were included were in the opinion pages and editorials, as compared with the news pages. It also finds that in the UK and the US the ‘right-leaning’ press carried significantly more climate sceptical opinion pieces than the ‘left-leaning’ newspapers....
The study also found that:
- In India, the absence of business-linked lobby groups and climate-sceptical scientists and politicians, and the presence of strong environmental NGOs, largely explain the absence of scepticism in the media
- The Brazilian media had the least amount of climate scepticism of the six countries studied
- Chinese journalists tended to follow the government line on climate science
- Climate scepticism was particularly prevalent on the opinion and editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal
James Painter, RISJ researcher and Head of the Journalism Fellowship Programme, said:
There are politicians in the UK and the US who espouse some variation of climate scepticism. Both countries also have organisations for ‘climate change sceptics’ that provide a sceptical voice for the media, particularly in those media outlets that are more receptive to this message. This is why we see more sceptical coverage in the Anglo-Saxon countries than we do in the other countries in the study where one or more of those factors appear to be absent.
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