FHis years ago, on March 10, 2010, a young climatologist unknown to the public discussed on television during stellar hours, against a science and politics figure. Valérie Masson-Delmotte, researcher at the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences, passionately defended the scientific consensus on global warming against former French education minister Claude Allègre, then champion of the “skeptics” of France.
The result of the debate had a particular meaning in the context of the late 2000s, marked by the failure of COP15 in Copenhagen and the emergence of narratives that deny the reality of climate change. However, many scientists, educators or journalists interested in the controversy believed that the battle against denial was not, in any case, that it was not long -term in the long term. Or all attacks on established knowledge, climate skepticism was the least likely to take root.
The reason was simple. It is difficult to personally experience the effectiveness of a vaccine or the causal bond between HIV infection and AIDS, while one has to wait for warming to begin to produce effects beyond the reasonable doubt so that the controversy collapses for itself. Sooner or later, everyone could witness the reality of anthropogenic warming and the precision of the main projections, available for a long time. Therefore, the persistence of climate-sképtic discourse in its various forms was unthinkable. In fact, from the famous debate between Masson-Delmotte and Allègre, the average temperature of the lower atmosphere has increased in half grade, and everyone can see first-hand the withdrawal of glaciers, changes on the coast and experience, freshness, chisghyts, Freghescy, Freghagy’s catastrophic floods.
‘High permeability’
However, “skepticism” still floats. The main media do not hesitate to promote it repeatedly. This is demonstrated by a study recently conducted by the Climat of quota, the data for good and non -profit organizations of scientific comments. In three months, the authors of the study identified almost 130 cases of erroneous or false information, as well as around 370 “inaction speeches.”
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