The fairy tale about IPCC scientists being Nobel laureates demonstrates that just because you hear it on the BBC, see it on the Australian Broadcasting Corp., or read it in The New York Times doesn’t mean it’s true.
The term ‘Fake News’ is everywhere these days. But no clear demarcation line exists to help us with this problem. Large, well-established, mainstream media outlets aren’t necessarily reliable. Independent, upstart, web-based news sources aren’t necessarily untrustworthy.
My 2013 book about the world’s most important climate body begins by explaining how the mainstream media has spent years incorrectly describing scientists associated with that body as Nobel laureates. In 2007, Al Gore (a politician) shared the Nobel Peace Prize with a UN body known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This wasn’t a scientific prize, but a recognition of their role in raising public awareness about global warming (the…
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