ABC running a survey on Australians’ opinions about Climate Change
There’s an ABC doco coming up called ”I can change your mind about climate change”, featuring Anna Rose (AYCC founder) and Nick Minchin (ex Lib senator), followed by a Q & A program on climate change.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/changeyourmind/
There’s a survey on the website where they’re attempting to ‘determine Australians differing attitude to climate change’. So far it looks like the climate deniers have all jumped on board and done it
Murdoch press ‘informs’ public opinion on climate change
negative articles about the proposed carbon emissions tax in Murdoch’s newspapers outweighed positive ones
82 percent to 18 percent.
AUDIO How Murdoch’s Aussie Papers Cover Climate Change, NPR News by DAVID 
FOLKENFLIK April 6, 2012 “…..[journalist Wendy] Bacon delved into her own harvest: the results of a case study about how the country’s newspapers handled a pressing and contentious issue.
Bacon, a professor of journalism at the University of Technology in Sydney, commissioned researchers and graduate students to examine six months’ worth of every article, feature piece, editorial and columns in 10 leading Australian papers on a proposal by the governing Labor Party to tax carbon emissions.
“What our study showed is that the majority of Australians are not getting a balanced or diverse view on a policy which was designed — at least in a small way — to tackle this problem,” Bacon said.
Seven of the 10 papers studied were part of News Corp.’s Australian newspaper arm, News Limited. The overwhelming majority of newspapers sold in the country are owned by Rupert Murdoch’s company. With such dominance of the press, the Murdoch papers draw careful scrutiny of how they cover sensitive issues. Continue reading
New science findings contradict climate change sceptics
Ice age study delivers blow to global-warming skeptics A new study finds that rising levels of carbon dioxide drove rising temperatures at the end of the last ice age. The findings contrast with previous studies, which skeptics of human-triggered global warming said showed that CO2 levels weren’t an important factor. Christian Science Monitor, By Pete Spotts, April 5, 2012 Rising levels of carbon dioxide drove much of the global warming that thawed Earth at the end of the last ice age. Continue reading
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