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Edited by Le Dustin xddddd: 4/14/2014 10:13:43 PM
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Is this why the American public is so skeptical of global warming?

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/306/5702/1686.full http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/Journalistic-Balance-as-Global-Warming-Bias/ Despite there being a scientific consensus on global warming with it's denial among the scientific community virtually nonexistent (literally 0% of peer reviewed scientific articles have denied the effects of global warming), the slightly smaller half of Americans still deny that global climate change is real. According to a FAIR study, about 53% of articles from the popular press were skeptical of the effects of global warming taken from a 14-year period of time. Is media bias the reason that so many Americans are in denial of science?

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  • Edited by Obi Wan Stevobi: 5/14/2014 8:15:35 PM
    I don't think they are [i]that[/i] skeptical of the science, they just reject it because Al Gore talked about it. If it would have been purely presented as science, and not taken as a partisan issue, people wouldn't reject it on ideological grounds. Also, I'd guess a decent percentage actually agree with the science but say they don't just because they don't like proposed solutions.

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