In two Substack articles this month, economist David Friedman roundly criticized the media for ignoring facts about climate change—including facts readily available in the highly-praised reports of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Here’s a start (emphasis added): “Treatment of climate in the IPCC reports, especially in the summary for policy makers, is biased…
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You Knew the Media Were Biased on Climate Change. An Academic Study Shows It.
Our thanks to Roger Pielke Jr. for bringing attention to a new study that quantifies the media bias on climate change. Pielke summarizes the study this way: “In 2020, scholars published more than 50,000 peer-reviewed papers on climate change in almost 6,000 journals. A new study by Marie-Elodie Perga and colleagues looks at how these papers…
Are the Media Waking Up to Climate Realism? Well, Maybe
Columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. of the Wall Street Journal detects a shift in news media coverage of climate change, after decades: “I can’t help but wonder how events might have been different if climate news coverage over these many decades had not veered into moronic nonsense, from which it is only fitfully starting to…
Can the Media Tell the Truth about Climate Change? Apparently Not.
From Steven Koonin in the Wall Street Journal: “[T]he media goes with this angle: ‘A “doomsday glacier” the size of Florida is disintegrating faster than thought.’ A correct headline would read: ‘Thwaites Glacier retreating less than half as rapidly today as it did in the past.’” Koonin, author of Unsettled, a book that questions the…