Taking the Microphone Away From Deniers

authordefault
on

TVO Producer Daniel Kitts makes the case in the Globe and Mail online edition for not giving climate change โ€œskepticsโ€ equalย time.

But he misses a couple of arguments, atย least.

First, if you surveyed all those legitimate scientists who accept or contest the theory of anthropogenic global warming and then quoted them proportionately, the deniers would get to comment, but only very, very rarely. Choosing one person on one side and one on the other – as journalists so often do – makes it appear that the scientific community is evenly divided, that there is a hot debate. As Naomi Oreskes demonstrated in Science , no such debate exists in serious scientificย literature.

Second, if you declined to use spokespeople whose income you could trace back to a fossil fuel company – or a think tank sponsored by a fossil fuel company – you would, again, seriously weed out the number of spokespeople available to challenge theย science.

The question is not whether we should accept a show of hands among scientists and then bannish those who advocate a minority view. The question is why we are allowing an agenda-driven minority so much influence in a crucial globalย debate.

authordefault
Admin's short bio, lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Voluptate maxime officiis sed aliquam! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit.

Related Posts

on

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis took to Senate floor to decry lobbyists like Alex Epstein pushing huge energy moves โ€œwithout a clue about what they are potentially doing to our grid.โ€

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis took to Senate floor to decry lobbyists like Alex Epstein pushing huge energy moves โ€œwithout a clue about what they are potentially doing to our grid.โ€
Series: MAGA
on

Paying for social license is 'no substitute for solving environmental problems,' say critics.

Paying for social license is 'no substitute for solving environmental problems,' say critics.
on

The agencyโ€™s work for the fossil fuel industry has made it โ€œcomplicit in causing existential harm to people and planetโ€, say campaigners, who are calling on WPP to drop those clients.

The agencyโ€™s work for the fossil fuel industry has made it โ€œcomplicit in causing existential harm to people and planetโ€, say campaigners, who are calling on WPP to drop those clients.
on

The Alberta premier wants to replace coal and mine it at the same time.

The Alberta premier wants to replace coal and mine it at the same time.