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Climate sceptics more prominent in UK and US media
http://www.iop.org/news/12/oct/page_58556.html[font face=Serif][font size=5]Climate sceptics more prominent in UK and US media[/font]
5 October 2012 | Source: Environmental Research Letters
[font size=4]Climate sceptics are being given a more prominent, and sometimes uncontested, voice in UK and US newspapers in contrast to other countries around the world, new research suggests.[/font]
[font size=3]The findings have been published today, 2 October, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, as part of a study looking at how climate scepticism manifested itself in the print media of the US, UK, Brazil, China, India and France during a 3-month period which included ‘Climategate’ in 2009/10 and a second period which covered the IPCC’s fourth assessment report in 2007.
In an audit of over 2,064 newspaper articles from the six countries during the first period, the authors, from the University of Oxford and University of London, found that around one in nine articles contained a sceptical voice.
In the US, 34 per cent of all climate change stories appearing in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal during this time had a sceptical voice. Of the 511 climate change articles appearing in the Guardian/Observer and the Daily/SundayTelegraph during this time, 19 per cent contained a sceptical voice.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/0440055 October 2012 | Source: Environmental Research Letters
[font size=4]Climate sceptics are being given a more prominent, and sometimes uncontested, voice in UK and US newspapers in contrast to other countries around the world, new research suggests.[/font]
[font size=3]The findings have been published today, 2 October, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, as part of a study looking at how climate scepticism manifested itself in the print media of the US, UK, Brazil, China, India and France during a 3-month period which included ‘Climategate’ in 2009/10 and a second period which covered the IPCC’s fourth assessment report in 2007.
In an audit of over 2,064 newspaper articles from the six countries during the first period, the authors, from the University of Oxford and University of London, found that around one in nine articles contained a sceptical voice.
In the US, 34 per cent of all climate change stories appearing in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal during this time had a sceptical voice. Of the 511 climate change articles appearing in the Guardian/Observer and the Daily/SundayTelegraph during this time, 19 per cent contained a sceptical voice.
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