Inhofe states:
โScientists like MITโs Richard Lindzen, former Colarado State Climatologist Roger Pielke, the University of Alabamaโs Roy Spencer, and John Christy, Virginia State Climatologist Patrick Michaels, Colorado State Universityโs William Grey, atmospehric physicist Fred Singer, Willie Soon, Oregon State Climatologist George Taylor [and] astrophysicist Sallie Baliuna, just to name a few. But you never hear of them.The media never talks about these well-established scientists.โ
We wonโt get into the fact in this post that many of the โwell establishedโ scientists Inhofe rattles off are โwell establishedโ in the oil and coal industry.
Instead, we tested Inhofeโs claim that the scientists he lists are never talked about in the media. Unfortunately, Inhofeโs claim of media bias is way off the mark.
A quick infomart media search of major North American newspaper shows over 350 mentions of Fred Singer, Willie Soon, Sallie Baliunas, William Grey, Roger Pielke, Richard Linzen and Patrick Michaels. In other words, the most notorious climate change โskepticsโ in the US have been mentioned, on average, once every 5 days in North American major print outlets alone.
