Localised sea level rises?, page-76

Followed a link from that and found this and was surprised. Could it be that the ABC is even more fixed in their views than the venerable BeeB? I had thought they were the pace setter.


BBC most likely to portray IPCC science as ‘contested’: how old and new media covered the IPCC

BBC television coverage of the UN’s latest climate science reports was the most likely to portray climate science as not ‘settled’, according to emerging research. Meanwhile, UK tweeters are the most likely in the world to have debates about climate change
We’re reporting new communication research findings previewed at last week’s Transformational Climate Science Conference, hosted by Exeter University. The event was sunny, packed, and buzzing with different ideas about how climate communication is produced and received – including work reflecting on the Intergovernmenta Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s latest report. .
Old media – framing the issue
The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports have got lots of media coverage, and a team of researchers from Exeter University has been studying it. Presenting their results lead author Dr Saffron O’Neill said that of the main UK television channels, the BBC was most likely to present climate science as contested. ITV did in part, while Channel 4 stuck to reflecting the weight of scientific opinion on climate change, she said.

http://www.carbonbrief.org/bbc-most...tested-how-old-and-new-media-covered-the-ipcc