Climate Deniers Have Enjoyed Way More Media Coverage Than Scientists in Recent Decades

https://www.sciencealert.com/climate-deniers-got-far-more-media-attention-than-scientists-this-century

Climate deniers are often featured by the mainstream media as a way to 'balance' their reporting, and yet for most of this century, climate coverage has been neither fair nor balanced.

Since the early 2000s, scientific dispute over the reality of human-caused climate change has virtually come to an end. But you wouldn't necessarily know that from reading the news.

A new analysis of the media landscape shows that from 2000 to 2016, climate deniers received far more media attention than scientists. In fact, during this time, media outlets gave these contrarians nearly 50 percent more visibility than the top experts on climate change.

"Climate change contrarians have successfully organised a strong voice within politics and science communication," the authors of the study write.

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