'Bit of an echo chamber:' Study finds climate denier blogs ignore science - News Summed Up

'Bit of an echo chamber:' Study finds climate denier blogs ignore science


An analysis of dozens of blogs that question the threat climate change poses to polar bears has found the writers ignore virtually all the science on bears and sea ice. The study, published Wednesday in the journal BioScience, suggests the blogs use the two topics to create doubt about climate change generally. “None of the blogs or online sources expressed views with respect to (climate change) that were truly in the middle,” the study says. “They fell quite easily into two camps.”The denier blogs include popular destinations such as Climate Depot, Watts Up With That and Junk Science. There are no other papers that combined both.”Almost none of the denier blogs agreed with the main conclusions in the 92 published papers and routinely contradicted them.


Source: National Post November 29, 2017 17:47 UTC



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