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'Climategate' had only fleeting effect on global warming scepticism
2014-05-21 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Media storms attacking the science of climate change have only a fleeting effect on the public's interest and do not appear to alter opinions, according to new research. Oxford University scientists used the Google Trends tool to track web searches related to global warming over the past decade but found that peaks of interest in major stories, such as the leaking of climate scientists emails in 2009 dubbed climategate disappeared within a few weeks. We found that intense media coverage...
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