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Climate Change Denialism
- Petersen et al. 19
- Study that extensively examines the permeation of climate contrarian influence throughout media
- “Contrarians are featured in 49% more media articles than scientists.”
- “When comparing visibility in mainstream media sources only, we observe just a 1% excess visibility, which objectively demonstrates the crowding out of professional sources by the proliferation of new media sources, many of which contribute to the production and consumption of climate change disinformation at scale.”
- Benestad et al. 16
- Examines a selection of 38 papers which dispute anthropogenic climate change
- Found that these papers oftentimes had mistakes in methodology, analysis, assumptions, etc.
- “In many cases, shortcomings are due to insufficient model evaluation, leading to results that are not universally valid but rather are an artifact of a particular experimental setup. Other typical weaknesses include false dichotomies, inappropriate statistical methods, or basing conclusions on misconceived or incomplete physics.”
- The Guardian: Goldenberg 12
- Libertarian think tank keeps prominent sceptics on its payroll and relies on millions in funding from carbon industry
- Scheme includes $100,000 for spreading the message in K-12 schools that "the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain”’
- Not the most reliable information to tackle the issue of climate change misinformation: “It was not possible to immediately verify the authenticity of the documents"