Facts Frozen Out: Network News and Global Warming  Executive
Summary  Polls from groups as diverse as Greenpeace and Citizens
for a Sound Economy show that most climate scientists are
skeptical of claims that the climate change of the 20th century
has been a result of greenhouse gas emissions. This is news to
network reporters. A study from the MRC's Free Market Project
demonstrates that over the past five years reporters have
presented a highly distorted picture of the global warming
debate. Specifically, researchers found:  1) Thirty-nine of the
48 network evening news stories during the study period simply
assumed that science supports global warming theories. Only
seven stories mentioned that climate scientists are skeptical of
claims that humans are changing the earth's temperature.  2) Of
the seven stories which did mention that scientists are
skeptical of global warming theories, only two brought up the
actual arguments of skeptical scientists. (There were two
stories during the study period that neith