"As someone working in the media, I would love to see my fellow journalists and reporters put a ban on covering the views of climate change deniers"

The climate change debate is over

Every time a media outlet prints or broadcasts the opinions of the deniers — the Alan Joneses and Lord Moncktons of the world — the dangerous lie that climate change doesn’t exist gets a little bit of a boost.

As someone working in the media, I would love to see my fellow journalists and reporters put a ban on covering the views of climate change deniers.

If we did this, people would no doubt rant and rave that the media was “stifling the debate”. If there was a debate left to stifle, this would be a fair point.

But the debate is over. It has been over among the scientific community for at least a decade.

“What about freedom of speech?”, someone will cry. I respectfully submit that freedom of speech should only cover the truth. After all, we have laws to stop people from spreading lies about other people or other races or religions.