Academy Award winner and former Vice President Al Gore blasted the mainstream media’s coverage of global warming and climate change due to the burning of fossil fuels at a media ethics discussion on Tuesday.

He said there are many reasons why world leaders aren’t doing more about global warming, “but one of the principal reasons in my view is more than half of the mainstream media have rejected the scientific consensus implicitly.

“They have failed to report that it is the consensus and instead have chosen balance as bias,” he said. “I don’t think that any of the editors or reporters responsible for one of these stories saying, ‘It may be real, it may not be real,’ is unethical. But I think they made the wrong choice, and I think the consequences are severe.”

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