That is, 23% of climate stories in the Sun, Mirror, Mail and Express, say that maybe global warming won't be such a bad thing, or won't be as hot as the doomsayers predict, or maybe it isn't all totally the fault of Man and carbon dioxide.
Wilby thinks that 100% of scientists agree about 100% of the Man Made Climate Change Story. In fact every IPCC meeting is full of squabbles, foot stamping, hissy fits and compromise exactly 0% of scientists agree with 100% of any IPCC report.
For example: one IPCC computer model predicts significant global cooling ... at the other extreme another model predicts warming by over 6 degrees C by the end of this century.
One certainty: The truth will be somewhere in the middle.
But Mr Perfect Wilby should cast out the mote in his own eye. The overwhelming majority of scientists (i.e. the consensus) say that nuclear power has an important role to play in the attenuation of global warming and GM crops are an essential part of providing enough food in a future of increased temperatures.
But ... about 99% of the Guardian's coverage disagrees with the overwhelming scientific consensus! If it is naughty of a crappy tabloid to contradict the scientific consenus, how much worse is it for a "serious" newspaper to do the same?
Wilby says the reason for the tabloids' ignorance of climate change is that none of their commentators has "anything more than a science O-level."
Well, which of these world famous and authoritative rent-a-quote environmental commentators has more than a science O-level?
(Clue -- NONE.)
From what we can tell there are only two eco-types who have a degree in aPeter Wilby - Guardian media expert
Prince Charles - Prince & layabout & adulterer & all-round loony
Lord Melchett - heir to ICI fortune, hobby farmer
Al Gore - heir to Gore fortune & Senate seat, electoral failure
Zac Goldsmith - heir to strip-mining and deforestation fortune, playboy Jonathon Porritt - heir to Baronetcy of Hapstead, Prince Charles-lover
Dr Caroline Lucas - Green Party MEP, not a real doctor - PhD in Eng Lit
Mark Lynas - New Statesman green correspondent
Jonathan Dimbleby - publishing heir, hobby farmer
James Murdoch - publishing heir of evil right-wing Rupert
Jamie Oliver - really really bad, fat-tongued cook
Sting - "singer" & wifey Trudie, Ugly, Weeply Styler
Chris Martin - "singer" & wifey Gwyneth Paltrow - Hollywood heiress
Thom Yorke - "singer" & public school socialist
Madonna - "singer" but at, least a self-made millionaire unlike the rest.
science subject:
George Monbiot - heir to a biscuit fortune and son of two ardent Tories but he can spot the difference between CO2 and the crack in your arse.
Tony Juniper - now with Friends of the Earth but formerly a bird-botherer so may no longer be able to tell the difference between CO2 and the crack in your arse.PLEASE CONTRIBUTE
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