dailygleaner.com - Climate change deniers distort facts - Weaver

At his Big Thinking presentation Tuesday, author and researcher Andrew Weaver talked about how people can dig under the hype.

One thing they must understand, he said, is the media are under severe deadlines and have a mandate they must follow. Journalists don't want to seem biased, he said, so in articles about climate they invariably try to include a token line from "the other side."

He pointed out a study that examined almost 1,000 media articles on climate change over the past decade and found that 94 per cent included a "balanced view." The same study examined peer-reviewed science articles that were published in journals. Not a single anti-climate change, science-supported article was found.
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Weaver, a self-proclaimed Christian, said that peer-reviewed science to undermine the existence of climate change is virtually nonexistent.

The problem, said Weaver, is that science is by nature an ongoing process and can't prove anything. He said a lot of the science put forth by climate decriers is taken out of context, such as the argument that carbon levels are lower now than they have ever been. However, he said conditions that were livable billions of years ago wouldn't be agreeable now, seeing as humans aren't the same as dinosaurs.