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Media ‘has distorted climate debate’

30 August 2019
 

The mass media has distorted coverage of climate change and skewed the direction of public policy, a climate scientist has said. 

Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama, says media coverage of climate is “usually greatly exaggerated, half truths, or just plain nonsense”. 

“Severe weather events that have always occurred (tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, droughts) are now reported with at least some blame placed on your SUV.”

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