In any case, it is simply an effort to reconcile the rapid rates of warming in the Arctic with the output of the most recent group of global climate models — everyone agrees that global warming is real, except for a very large number of editors and reporters with the U.S. press, who continue to advocate for the positions held by a small number of fossil
fuel funded contrarians and insist on giving them «equal time» — a luxury denied to renewable energy experts.
Not exact matches
Last month, public documents revealed that Harvard - Smithsonian researcher Willie Soon failed to disclose
funding from fossil
fuel sources for some of his
contrarian research.
Fred Singer and other
contrarian scientists didn't do work for fossil -
fuel funded think tanks?
A UCS investigation showed that the U.S. news media routinely fail to inform the public about the fossil
fuel industry
funders behind climate change
contrarian think tanks.
From 2011 - 2012, two - thirds of stories from eight top news organizations did not identify the fossil
fuel industry
funding of eight prominent climate
contrarian groups.
Scientific journals are being alerted by watchdog groups to fossil
fuel funding of
contrarian climate studies [link].
Under the same grant the
contrarian scientist also published two papers questioning whether climate change was dangerous for polar bears and whether the Arctic was warming, without disclosing the fossil
fuel companies that
funded his work.