(Eric Berger/Houston Chronicle)
The fight for hearts and minds when it comes to climate change has moved to a new battleground: your television set.
Climate change activists have launched a campaign, dubbed Forecast the Facts, that outs television meteorologists who are “deniers” of mainstream climate change science. Led by several groups, including 350.org, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Citizen Engagement Lab, the campaign was spurred by recent surveys finding that half or more of TV forecasters hold contrarian climate change views.
“TV meteorologists have as much, if not more, opportunity to talk to the American public about climate change than anyone,” said Daniel Souweine, director of the Forecast the Facts drive…. (Read more at Houston Chronicle)
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