Fox and foreign press find fault but climate bill is progress

This week’s Media Mayhem column from the Mother Nature network.

I was so proud of the House of Representatives for its recent passage of legislation to tackle climate change. Finally.

Wait a sec’ … who’s biasing science around here?

The climate-change denial camp argues that “alarmist” scientists, industrialists and politicians are grotesquely biasing the debate because they stand to make so much money from legislation to limit greenhouse gases.

Well, if you stand to make money on something, and if you have the means to influence the debate, it stands to reason that you’d spend a lot to make a lot more on down the road. How else could you bias things?

Surprise. Surprise. The interests that stand to gain from doing nothing  about climate change (or close to nothing) are spending five to 10 times as much as the interests that want the country to take aggressive action. At least, that’s the case when it comes to lobbying expenditures. Read more