Lord Krebs: scientists must challenge poor media reporting on climate change

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Lord Krebs argues the scientific community needs to become more assertive in its challenging of media misinformation on climate change

Ocean acidification is causing fundamental and dangerous changes in the chemistry of the world's oceans yet only one in five Britons has even heard of ocean acidification, let alone believes it a cause...

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