What climate consensus?

Abstract

Glover believes the media presents a biased view of global warming and argues: "For those of us who have taken the trouble to study the issue and the media coverage of it, the shrillness of the mainstream media's approach appears to owe more to scaremongering than to good investigative reporting - on an issue that could waste billions if the climate dissenters are correct." And he concludes: "What we, as journalists, personally believe about the science of climatology and its associated predictions for global cataclysm is hardly the point. What clearly is the point, however, is that we ought not to be propagating media myths based on a 'consensus' science view on global warming and climate change... I have had...difficulty convincing some editors and producers of the need to question the basic assumptions and wild predictions for the climate in 100 years time - surprising, really, when you consider the irony that climatologists (or meteorologists, as we otherwise know them) can't predict what the 'climate' will be in two weeks time with any degree of accuracy.