It's no wonder that the public is confused, when a sampling of climate related news items from the mass media revealed that more than 50% suggested that global warming is unproven.
Yet a survey by Science magazine (December 2004) of peer reviewed scientific studies on climate change showed that 928 peer reviewed papers supported global warming and none denied it.
The imbalance between peer reviewed science and its reportage is largely driven by media coverage of misleading claims by groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), well known for its aggressive campaigning to counter scientific evidence of human induced climate change. Their campaign included a series of television advertisements that claimed that CO2 is good for the planet. "They call it pollution. We call it life", proclaimed the ads.
At that time Myron Ebells was director of the CEI, Global Warming Policy, and in a BBC interview he made no denial that since 1998, the CEI has received over US$2 million from Exxon Mobil Oil. Other contributors to CEI include tobacco giant Philip Morris that gave US$370,000, said to be for "regulatory issues"
These attacks on the integrity of the scientific community, in conjunction with a well funded and executed campaign of misinformation, has lost the average person in confusion over the vital issue of climate change.
Link: http://www.desmogblog.com/myron-ebell
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