Hackgate: good news or bad for the climate?

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Duncan Clark wonders whether News Corp's travails really will usher in more responsible reporting of climate change

Given how fully the phone hacking scandal has been dominating the news, I'm surprised that, so far, there's been very little discussion in the environment sphere of what any of it might mean in terms of...

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