AP to Stop Referring to Climate Change Doubters as ‘Skeptics,’ ‘Deniers’

Mediaite.com:

The Associated Press made quite a notable change today in how it refers to individuals with skeptical views about climate change science.

The AP announced the change on its blog today, explaining the changes:

Our guidance is to use climate change doubters or those who reject mainstream climate science and to avoid the use of skeptics or deniers.
Some background on the change: Scientists who consider themselves real skeptics – who debunk mysticism, ESP and other pseudoscience, such as those who are part of the Center for Skeptical Inquiry – complain that non-scientists who reject mainstream climate science have usurped the phrase skeptic. They say they aren’t skeptics because “proper skepticism promotes scientific inquiry, critical investigation and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims.” That group prefers the phrase “climate change deniers” for those who reject accepted global warming data and theory. But those who reject climate science say the phrase denier has the pejorative ring of Holocaust denier so The Associated Press prefers climate change doubter or someone who rejects mainstream science.

How news outlets decide to frame such things can have a big impact on how they’re presented to the public, though things like this change have been controversial in the past, like when the AP decided to drop the use of “illegal immigrant” two years ago.

Of course, it's just a mere coincidence that the AP makes this change not too long after Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina, the two leaders in the GOP Presidential polls, both announced that they too don't believe in the outright lie that is global warming aka climate change.

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