Posted by The Editors
on November 3, 2009, 1:23 pm, in reply to "Clive James isn't a climate change sceptic, he's a sucker "
"A study by the website Desmogblog shows that the number of internet pages proposing that man-made global warming is a hoax or a lie more than doubled last year. The Science Museum's Prove it! exhibition asks online readers to endorse or reject a statement that they've seen the evidence and want governments to take action. As of yesterday afternoon, 1,006 people had endorsed it and 6,110 had rejected it. On Amazon.co.uk, books championing climate change denial are currently ranked at 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and 8 in the global warming category. Never mind that they've been torn to shreds by scientists and reviewers, they are beating the scientific books by miles. What is going on?"
Internet pages, museum exhibits, published books - what is going on in George's head?! What about the performance of the corporate media? That is the dedicated corporate arm of the same corporate system wrecking the havoc.
It makes no sense at all to discuss this problem without discussing the media. And yet the word is given a single mention:
"Had he bothered to take a look at the quality of the evidence on either side of this media debate, and the nature of the opposing armies – climate scientists on one side, rightwing bloggers on the other..."
There is another force on the denialist side - much of the global corporate media system chock full of adverts and denialist blather.
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