Climate and the Media

Climate Change is a major issue; it does get covered in the media/blogs etc, but either as a controversy where scientists argue with one another (the media likes controversy) or as just another thing we need to worry about (like scary immigrants or the weather) as if it's something not under our control or influence or as a myth created by communists socialists anarchists environmentalists the NWO evil scientists to increase taxes keep the US economy down implement world government scam research grants.

In practice this manifests itself in a number of interesting ways. First of by over-reporting the 'controversies' and under reporting when those controversies turn out to be bunkum. Here's how much there is on the reporting of the accusations against climate scientists and the exonerations of the same climate scientists:



As can be clearly seen; over-reporting the 'controversies' and under reporting when those controversies turn out to be bunkum. This is also an interesting story; Fox news refusing to run an ad campaign to end US dependency on fossil fuels because it is 'too confusing'. Nice.