American Newspapers Give Far More Coverage To Climate Deniers And Skeptics Than Other Countries

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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/10/05/968221/study-american-newspapers-give-far-more-coverage-to-climate-deniers-and-skeptics-than-other-countries/

America is unique when it comes to giving a platform to climate deniers and skeptics.

According to a new analysis of data released last year, American newspapers are far more likely to publish uncontested claims from climate deniers, many of whom challenge whether the planet is warming at all and are “almost exclusively found” in the U.S. media. The study was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

The researchers were trying to answer three important questions: Is climate denial and disinformation as prevalent in the newspapers outside America? Is it mostly right-wing papers publishing these pieces? And what types of skeptics are being published in different countries?

In all three categories, the U.S. emerged as a unique leader in promoting climate denial in the press.