“Let’s begin with an important journalist statement. … Some stories don’t have two sides. Some stories are simply true. There is no necessity to give equal time to the quote ‘other side.’ One of these is climate change.” ~CNN
CNN reports that “depending on which study or expert you consult between 95 and 97 percent of scientists agree that climate change is happening now, that it’s damaging the planet, and that it’s man-made.”
With this in mind, Dr. Michio Kaku and The Huffington Post’s Jack Mirkinson discuss why the media continue to present human impact on climate change as a two-sided argument in an attempt to answer the question: why does television insist on staging debate on climate change?
You can watch the discussion below:
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