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Date/Time 21 Apr 2014 12:46:12pm
How many reporters have a science background, and probably even more important, how many editors has a science background?

When you have the Murdock group news doing every thing it can to discredit and throw doubt around about the science, the confusion about climate change is not surprising.

It is very easy to be a so called sceptics, all you have to do is produce doubt in the minds of the public. The sceptics have no problem using discredited data against the science of climate change, while complaining about the isolated flaws in the process and data. They really don’t care about how flawed their own argument is because they know the public have very little scientific knowledge or skills capacity to evaluate either argument.

If we were to accept the science of climate change, people, industry would have to change the way they do things. It couldn’t be simply business as usual, and for that reason alone it is easy for the anti climate change lobby groups and media to create doubt.

After all it has taken most of the last century to bring in regulations to clean up industry pollution of our environment to the extent we have now. And it is far from perfect even now as far as the impacts of industry pollutants on human health, let alone the environment. So it is not surprising that it is so hard to get people to realise that we need to stop pumping CO2 and other climate change gases into the atmosphere.