The Possession

Explore the impact of climate change media and whether climate skeptics truly hold as much influence as believed.

ByKeith Kloor
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At the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media, I ask:

Are climate skeptics less important and less influential than they "” and their counterparts in the climate-concerned community "” would have us believe?

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