Australia: Climate change: journalism's never-ending fight for facts

Guardian: The debate about climate change is dogged – possibly even defined – by its interminable, intractable tug of war over the "facts". A hand grenade is lobbed into no-man's land triggering a volley of return fire. But, when the dust settles, can anyone truly claim to have advanced their position? Of course, the art of "manufacturing doubt" has long been in the playbook of those hoping or needing to divert attention away from evidence. We saw it a generation ago with smoking, just as we see it today...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/oct/19/climate-change-facts-journalism
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