Climate change: Multi-country media analysis shows scepticism of the basic science is dying out

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Researchers at the University of Oxford watched 30 news programmes in five countries to see how they covered an IPCC report on climate change

Any regular viewer of BBC's Question Time could be forgiven for thinking that old-fashioned climate science denialism is alive and kicking. In a recent edition, panellist Julia Hartley-Brewer called the...

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