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Climate change denial isn't just a problem in the US, and "Fox News" isn't the only network that has treated people who espouse it, as if they knew what they were talking about..
The UK Parliament's Science and Technology Committee has recently delivered a report on the state of climate knowledge and communication in the country. Although it doesn't spare the government from criticism, the report notes that most of the public looks to the BBC to provide authoritative coverage on science. The report concludes that in this case, the BBC's news division is failing its readership and viewers. Rather than providing authoritative information, the BBC is succumbing to false balance, and its director of Editorial Policy and Standards gave testimony on science coverage that appears to be incoherent.
In the UK, the major political parties largely accept the scientific evidence for climate change; official skepticism is limited to a few parties on the conservative fringe. As such, the report starts with the acceptance of the conclusions reached by the majority of scientists: the Earth is warming, and humans are the main factor driving that warming.
