Zombie climate skeptic theories survive only in newspapers and on TV
By Graham Readfearn, The Guardian
Friday, May 17, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
So after giving up on the peer-reviewed literature, the climate science contrarians – often bolstered by support from the fossil fuel industry and free-market idealogues – took their talking points somewhere else.
That is, out into the public domain, the mainstream media and the blogosphere and far away from the less forgiving operating theatre of peer-reviewed science journals.
To this day, these dead theories hang around like slack-jawed zombies in the graveyards of global media outlets.
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