Newspapers in UK and US give climate sceptics most column inches
British climate sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton British
climate sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton. Photograph: Alan
Porritt/EPA    The authors examined in particular the political
leanings of each newspaper and concluded that there was "little
evidence" that this influenced coverage of climate sceptics in
Brazil, India and China. However, in the US and UK, and to some
extent France, the political leaning of the newspaper did affect
coverage of climate sceptics.  "The strongest evidence for a
distinction between left-leaning and right-leaning newspapers
can be found in the opinion pages in France, the UK and the US,
where right-leaning newspapers are much more likely to include
uncontested [climate] sceptical voices," concluded the authors.
There were some surprises in the data, though, said the authors,
James Painter of the University of Oxford's Reuters Institute
for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) and Teresa Ashe of Birkbeck
College. For ex