Climate Skepticism in British Newspapers, 2007–2011
@article{Painter2016ClimateSI,
title={Climate Skepticism in British Newspapers, 2007–2011},
author={J. Painter and Neil T. Gavin},
journal={Environmental Communication},
year={2016},
volume={10},
pages={432 - 452}
}Climate skepticism in the UK media has not been a major focus of recent research. This paper aims to help fill the gap by looking at the incidence of skeptical voices in UK newspapers across three periods: 2007, 2009/2010, and 2010/2011. After analyzing more than 3200 articles, it finds that skeptical voices increased their presence markedly across all newspapers and all types of articles in the second period, and maintained a significant presence in many in the third. Uncontested skeptical… CONTINUE READING
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