Posted: Feb 22, 2012 11:59 am
FACT-MAN-2 wrote:
Climate change needs a popular leader, or leaders, a role that Al Gore has played and Bill McKibbon has stepped up to on the XL pipeline issue, but we need a lot more of this. We need well known personalities to lead the charge. Gore has worn out his welcome and aside from McKibbon, I don't see many others accepting this challenge, and it is a huge challenge because the media is against you all the way. We do see the odd interview situation in which a climate scientist is pitted against some well known denier, but they are infrequent and are often made inconclusive by mealy mouthed interviewers.
One of the problems of media coverage of climate change is the tendency to present a 'balanced view' of the issue by giving denialists equal opportunity to express their opinions. This leads to people thinking there is a controversy where there actually is none. Media should stick to the facts more instead of providing a platform for idiots and corporate sockpuppets.