Newspapers in UK and US give climate sceptics most column inches

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Study into coverage of climate change also shows right-leaning papers less likely to challenge sceptical voices

Climate sceptics feature more prominently in newspapers in the US and UK than other countries, and their views are more likely to go unchallenged in right-leaning papers, an academic study has shown...

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