Scientific Groups Reaching Out With Global Warming Campaigns

Scientists are using educational campaigns to inform the media and the public about global warming.

The Union of Concerned Scientists spent time in December meeting with members of the media – including reporters from 60 Minutes, Time, and Reuters – to discuss “global warming science,” Politico reports. The organization’s outreach also includes efforts to get scientists involved in news stories and in front of editorial boards and Rotary clubs.

UCS’s director of science and policy, Peter Frumhoff, said the reporters were most “interested in understanding how casting doubt about mainstream scientific findings that upset powerful financial interests …is a tactic that has been used time and again to delay or avoid regulation.”

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