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Aren't books considered Media? If books are, add some, or at least wikilinks? Some examples: Book:Global warming, Category:Climate change books, Category:Environmental non-fiction books, etc ... 99.88.230.179 (talk) 20:44, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
WP:NOTFORUM. If anyone has any serious analysis of the impact of popular books (i.e. books aimed at the general public) and/or films, that would qualify for coverage here. But I'm quite wary of the danger of covering specific books or films in any detail, especially if their scientific accuracy is a big issue (easily expanding to a paragraph or even more per book/film). The current content is quite broad summary and I think from an overall quality perspective it would be best kept that way. Rd232 talk 20:44, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
(I'm not sure that my comment protests a "bias" so much as a simple inaccuracy.) This article makes the common mistake of presenting "scientific consensus" in a manner that implies consensus is an acceptable form of evidence in a scientific debate. The "consensus" opinion on a subject is, at best, an interesting but irrelevant detail. It proves nothing and is inadmissible in methodical scientific debate. Science is not a democracy. Historically, the majority opinion has often been incorrect. Furthermore, even if consensus were an acceptable form of evidence, this article's assessment is factually inaccurate. The number of unbiased scientists who dispute a significant anthropogenic contribution to climate change is actually quite large. (It is simple to find an online petition signed by thousands of such scientists, many of whom hold PhD's.) Of course, the petition also proves nothing regarding the truth of AGW. It does, however, demonstrate that it is false to imply there is little or no scientific opposition to the "consensus." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.134.235.248 (talk) 14:37, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
"This stance is out of step with the findings of the scientific community where the vast majority support the climate change scenarios."
This sentence, particularly the part in bold, seems like bias.
"The popular media in New Zealand often give equal weight to the those supporting anthropogenic climate change and thosewho deny it."
This sentence also sounds biased (the part in bold is the problem). 99.224.93.55 (talk) 00:32, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Add Climate change in popular culture. 99.56.120.249 (talk) 05:00, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Who Speaks for the Climate?: Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change by Maxwell T. Boykoff, Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (September 30, 2011) ISBN-13: 978-0521133050
99.190.87.173 (talk) 19:59, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Right. This is fairly decent, but there's a couple bit that could be worked on - for the section on global cooling, we need to move over more sources from global cooling; there's plenty there, but, while Scienceblogs is apparently usually considered a reliable source, due to the high bars to getting accepted there, it's still not the BEST source, and we could do better. Still, the pre-existing parts of this aren't that well-cited, so it's not going to hurt us too much if it takes a bit to beef up the sources, in what is, after all, the only way to salvage some useful content which, without that fix, was POV-pushing, and thus unmergeable. And if you wait too long to merge, stuff's likely to disappear. 86.** IP (talk) 03:01, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
The editor who conducted the merge (and wrote the AfD proposal) seems to have arbitrarily deleted the Views of scientists section -- which seems to me to contain most of the worthwhile material in the deleted article. As time and energy permit, I'll work this material into Global warming controversy, per the AfD close. --Pete Tillman (talk) 21:19, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
99.181.143.62 (talk) 23:13, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Reference for what content? For new content? If so, add or suggest content. Vsmith (talk) 12:35, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure where to use this in this article, but it certainly applies to this subject and False balance:
Here is the actual report from the BBC Trust:
Use of The Daily Telegraph, a secondary source, backed by the BBC Trust primary source, should be good enough as references. -- Brangifer (talk) 20:11, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
This article reads like it is an essay or a speech. Major example (problem in bold) (under Distortions of Balance): "Does a flat-Earth proponent deserve equal time to a modern astrophysicist? Surely not. Should an advocate for intelligent design be taken as seriously as an evolutionary biologist? Again no." In this section, I can see someone reading this as a speech. This is not a critique on the article itself (I'm not knowledgeable enough to debate that), it is the style in which it is written. Leobold111 (talk) 01:00, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
I found it to have a preachy-type tone, and also a superior attitude towards the (presumably ignorant) readers. -Cleaned it up a bit, but thinking the whole article is garbage but may hold some good resources.2601:C:6783:8416:D58:4BDD:1584:DEDA (talk) 13:36, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
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Media coverage of climate change → Media coverage of global warming – Article is clearly about global warming in the media, rather than climate change in general. Even the image in the lede has "global warming" in the headline. A peak in media coverage occurred with An Inconvenient Truth, which is about global warming and not climate change. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 07:54, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_policy_of_the_Harper_government#Media_coverage_of_climate_change I think this link should be removed. We have a new government. Canada TheDoDahMan (talk) 06:01, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
I suggest that the article Doomers should be merged into this article's "alarmist" section–any objections? Rwood128 (talk) 20:02, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
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