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Media coverage of climate change

October 21, 2023

Media coverage of climate change has had effects on public opinion on climate change, as it conveys the scientific consensus on climate change that the global temperature has increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.[1]

Global warming was the cover story of this 2007 issue of the liberal-leaning feminist Ms. magazine.

Climate change communication research shows that coverage has grown and become more accurate.[2]: 11 

Some researchers and journalists believe that media coverage of politics of climate change is adequate and fair, while a few feel that it is biased.[3][4][5][6]

History Edit

 
This 1902 article attributes to Swedish Nobel laureate (chemistry) Svante Arrhenius a theory that coal combustion could eventually lead to human extinction.[7]
 
This 1912 article succinctly describes the greenhouse effect, focusing on how burning coal creates carbon dioxide that causes climate change.[8]

Media attention is especially high in carbon dependent countries with commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. The way the media report on climate change in English-speaking countries, especially in the United States, has been widely studied, while studies of reporting in other countries have been less expansive.[9][10] A number of studies have shown that particularly in the United States and in the UK tabloid press, the media significantly understated the strength of scientific consensus on climate change established in IPCC Assessment Reports in 1995 and in 2001.

A peak in media coverage occurred in early 2007, driven by the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth.[11] A subsequent peak in late 2009, which was 50% higher,[12] may have been driven by a combination of the November 2009 Climatic Research Unit email controversy and December 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference.[11][13]

The Media and Climate Change Observatory team at the University of Colorado Boulder found that 2017 "saw media attention to climate change and global warming ebb and flow" with June seeing the maximum global media coverage on both subjects. This rise is "largely attributed to news surrounding United States (US) President Donald J. Trump's withdrawal from the 2015 United Nations (UN) Paris Climate Agreement, with continuing media attention paid to the emergent US isolation following through the G7 summit a few weeks later."[14]

Media coverage of climate change during the Trump Administration remained prominent as most news outlets placed heavy emphasis on Trump-related stories rather than climate-related events.[15] This shift in media focus is referred to as "Trump Dump" and was shown to peak in times when the President was most active on Twitter. Just in the year 2017, the word "Trump" was mentioned 19,187 times in stories covered by five of the nation's biggest press accounts, with "climate" being the second most frequent word.[15]

In a 2020 article, Mark Kaufman of Mashable noted that the English Wikipedia's article on climate change has "hundreds of credible citations" which "counters the stereotype that publicly-policed, collaboratively-edited Wikipedia pages are inherently unreliable".[16]

Common distortions Edit

Factual Edit

Scientists and media scholars who express frustrations with inadequate science reporting argue that it can lead to at least three basic distortions. First, journalists distort reality by making scientific errors. Second, they distort by keying on human-interest stories rather than scientific content. And third, journalists distort by rigid adherence to the construct of balanced coverage.[17][18][19][20][21][22][excessive citations] Bord, O'Connor, & Fisher (1998) argue that responsible citizenry necessitates a concrete knowledge of causes and that until, for example, the public understands what causes climate change it cannot be expected to take voluntary action to mitigate its effects.[23]

In 2022 the IPCC reported that "Accurate transference of the climate science has been undermined significantly by climate change countermovements, in both legacy and new/social media environments through misinformation."[2]: 11 

Narrative Edit

According to Shoemaker and Reese, controversy is one of the main variables affecting story choice among news editors, along with human interest, prominence, timeliness, celebrity, and proximity. Coverage of climate change has been accused of falling victim to the journalistic norm of "personalization".[24] W.L Bennet defines this trait as: "the tendency to downplay the big social, economic, or political picture in favor of human trials, tragedies and triumphs".[25] The culture of political journalism has long used the notion of balanced coverage in covering the controversy. In this construct, it is permissible to air a highly partisan opinion, provided this view is accompanied by a competing opinion. But recently scientists and scholars have challenged the legitimacy of this journalistic core value with regard to matters of great importance on which the overwhelming majority of the scientific community has reached a well-substantiated consensus view.

In a survey of 636 articles from four top United States newspapers between 1988 and 2002, two scholars found that most articles gave as much time to the small group of climate change doubters as to the scientific consensus view.[17] Given real consensus among climatologists over global warming, many scientists find the media's desire to portray the topic as a scientific controversy to be a gross distortion. As Stephen Schneider put it:[20]

"a mainstream, well-established consensus may be 'balanced' against the opposing views of a few extremists, and to the uninformed, each position seems equally credible."

Science journalism concerns itself with gathering and evaluating various types of relevant evidence and rigorously checking sources and facts. Boyce Rensberger, the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Knight Center for Science Journalism, said, "balanced coverage of science does not mean giving equal weight to both sides of an argument. It means apportioning weight according to the balance of evidence."[26]

The claims of scientists also get distorted by the media by a tendency to seek out extreme views, which can result in portrayal of risks well beyond the claims actually being made by scientists.[27] Journalists tend to overemphasize the most extreme outcomes from a range of possibilities reported in scientific articles. A study that tracked press reports about a climate change article in the journal Nature found that "results and conclusions of the study were widely misrepresented, especially in the news media, to make the consequences seem more catastrophic and the timescale shorter."[28]

A 2020 study in PNAS found that newspapers tended to give greater coverage of press releases that opposed action on climate change than those that supported action. The study attributes it to false balance.[29]

Research that was done by Todd Newman, Erik Nisbet, and Matthew Nisbet shows that people's partisan preference is an indicator as to which media outlet they will most likely consume. Most media outlets often align with a particular partisan ideology. This causes people to resort to selective exposure which influences views on world issues such as climate change beliefs.[30]

Since 1990 climate scientists have communicated urgent warnings while simultaneously experiencing the media converting their statements into sensational entertainment.[31]

Alarmism Edit

Alarmism is using inflated language, including an urgent tone and imagery of doom.[citation needed] In a report produced for the Institute for Public Policy Research Gill Ereaut and Nat Segnit suggested that alarmist language is frequently used in relation to environmental matters by newspapers, popular magazines and in campaign literature put out by the government and environment groups.[32] It is claimed that when applied to climate change, alarmist language can create a greater sense of urgency.[33] It has been argued that using sensational and alarming techniques, often evoke "denial, paralysis, or apathy" rather than motivating individuals to action and do not motivate people to become engaged with the issue of climate change.[34][35] In the context of climate refugees—the potential for climate change to displace people—it has been reported that "alarmist hyperbole" is frequently employed by private military contractors and think tanks.[36]

The term alarmist has been used as a pejorative by critics of mainstream climate science to describe those that endorse the scientific consensus without necessarily being unreasonable.[37] MIT meteorologist Kerry Emanuel wrote that labeling someone as an "alarmist" is "a particularly infantile smear considering what is at stake." He continued that using this "inflammatory terminology has a distinctly Orwellian flavor."[38]

Some media reports have used alarmist tactics to challenge the science related to global warming by comparing it with a purported episode of global cooling. In the 1970s, global cooling, a claim with limited scientific support (even during the height of a media frenzy over global cooling, "the possibility of anthropogenic warming dominated the peer-reviewed literature") was widely reported in the press.[39] Several media pieces have claimed that since the even-at-the-time-poorly-supported theory of global cooling was shown to be false, that the well-supported theory of global warming can also be dismissed. For example, an article in The Hindu by Kapista and Bashkirtsev wrote: "Who remembers today, they query, that in the 1970s, when global temperatures began to dip, many warned that we faced a new ice age? An editorial in The Time magazine on June 24, 1974, quoted concerned scientists as voicing alarm over the atmosphere 'growing gradually cooler for the past three decades', 'the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland,' and other harbingers of an ice age that could prove 'catastrophic.' Man was blamed for global cooling as he is blamed today for global warming",[40] and the Irish Independent published an article claiming that "The widespread alarm over global warming is only the latest scare about the environment to come our way since the 1960s. Let's go through some of them. Almost exactly 30 years ago the world was in another panic about climate change. However, it wasn't the thought of global warming that concerned us. It was the fear of its opposite, global cooling. The doom-sayers were wrong in the past and it's entirely possible they're wrong this time as well."[41] Numerous other examples exist.[42][43][44]

Media, politics, and public discourse Edit

As McCombs et al.'s 1972 study of the political function of mass media showed, media coverage of an issue can "play an important part in shaping political reality".[45] Research into media coverage of climate change has demonstrated the significant role of the media in determining climate policy formation.[46] The media has considerable bearing on public opinion, and the way in which issues are reported, or framed, establishes a particular discourse.[47]

Media-policy interface Edit

The relationship between media and politics is reflexive. As Feindt & Oels state, "[media] discourse has material and power effects as well as being the effect of material practices and power relations".[48] Public support of climate change research ultimately decides whether or not funding for the research is made available to scientists and institutions.

Media coverage in the United States during the Bush Administration often emphasized and exaggerated scientific uncertainty over climate change, reflecting the interests of the political elite.[46] Hall et al. suggest that government and corporate officials enjoy privileged access to the media, allowing their line to become the 'primary definer' of an issue.[49] Media sources and their institutions very often have political leanings which determine their reporting on climate change, mirroring the views of a particular party.[50] However, media also has the capacity to challenge political norms and expose corrupt behaviour,[51] as demonstrated in 2007 when The Guardian revealed that American Enterprise Institute received $10,000 from petrochemical giant Exxon Mobil to publish articles undermining the IPCC's 4th assessment report.

Ever-strengthening scientific consensus on climate change means that skepticism is becoming less prevalent in the media (although the email scandal in the build up to Copenhagen reinvigorated climate skepticism in the media[52]).[failed verification]

Discourses of action Edit

 
The polar bear has become a symbol for those attempting to generate support for addressing climate change.

Commentators have argued that the climate change discourses constructed in the media have not been conducive to generating the political will for swift action. The polar bear has become a powerful discursive symbol in the fight against climate change. However, such images may create a perception of climate change impacts as geographically distant,[53] and MacNaghten argues that climate change needs to be framed as an issue 'closer to home'.[54] On the other hand, Beck suggests that a major benefit of global media is that it brings distant issues within our consciousness.[55]

Furthermore, media coverage of climate change (particularly in tabloid journalism but also more generally), is concentrated around extreme weather events and projections of catastrophe, creating "a language of imminent terror"[56] which some commentators argue has instilled policy-paralysis and inhibited response. Moser et al. suggest using solution-orientated frames will help inspire action to solve climate change.[57] The predominance of catastrophe frames over solution frames[58] may help explain the apparent value-action gap with climate change; the current discursive setting has generated concern over climate change but not inspired action.

Breaking the prevailing notions in society requires discourse that is traditionally appropriate and approachable to common people. For example, Bill McKibben, an environmental activist, provides one approach to inspiring action: a war-like mobilization, where climate change is the enemy. This approach could resonate with working Americans who normally find themselves occupied with other news headlines.[59]

Compared to what experts know about traditional media's and tabloid journalism's impacts on the formation of public perceptions of climate change and willingness to act, there is comparatively little knowledge of the impacts of social media, including message platforms like Twitter, on public attitudes toward climate change.[60]

In recent years, there has been an increase in the influence and role that social media plays in conveying opinions and knowledge through information sharing. There are several emerging studies that explore the connection between social media and the public's awareness of climate change. Anderson found that there is evidence that social media can raise awareness of climate change issues, but warns that it can also lead to opinion-dominated ideologies and reinforcement.[61] Another study examined datasets from Twitter to assess the ideas and attitudes that users of the application held toward climate change.[62] Williams et al. found that users tend to be active in groups that share the same opinions, often at the extremes of the spectrum, resulting in less polarized opinions between the groups.[62] These studies show that social media can have both a negative and positive impact on the information sharing of issues related to climate change.[61][62]

Youth awareness and activism Edit

Published in the journal Childhood, the article "Children's protest in relation to the climate emergency: A qualitative study on a new form of resistance promoting political and social change" considers how children have evolved into prominent actors to create a global impact on awareness of climate change. It highlights the work of children like Greta Thunberg and the significance of their resistance to the passivity of world leaders regarding climate change. It also discusses how individual resistance can directly be linked to collective resistance and that this then creates a more powerful impact, empowering young people to act more responsibly and take authority over the future. The article discusses the potential impact of youth to raise awareness while also inspiring action, and using social media platforms to share the message.[63]

Coverage by country Edit

 
Results of a survey in 31 countries of public opinion on the causes of climate change in 2021[64]

Australia Edit

See also: Climate change in Australia

Australian news outlets have been reported to present misleading claims and information.[65] One article from The Australian in 2009 claimed that climate change and global warming were fraudulent claims pushed by so-called "warmaholics".[66][non-primary source needed] Many other examples of claims that dismiss climate change have been posted by media outlets in Australia throughout the years following as well.[67][68][69] The 2013 summer and heat wave colloquially known as "Angry Summer" attracted a great deal of media attention, although few outlets directly linked the unprecedented heat to climate change.[70] As the world entered into 2020, global media coverage of climate change issues decreased and COVID-19 coverage increased. In Australia there was a 34% decrease in climate change articles published from March 2020.[71] A 2022 analysis found that Sky News Australia was a major source of climate misinformation globally.[72]

Australia has recently experienced some of the most intense bushfire seasons in its immediate history. This phenomenon has sparked extensive media coverage both nationally and internationally. Much of the media coverage of the 2019 and 2020 Australian bushfire seasons discussed the different factors that lead to and increase the chances of extreme fire seasons.[73] A climate scientist, Nerilie Abram, at Australian National University explained in an article for Scientific American, that the four major conditions need to exist for wildfire and those include "available fuel, dryness of that fuel, weather conditions that aid the rapid spread of fire and an ignition.[74]

Canada Edit

Further information: Environmental policy of the Harper government § Media coverage of climate change

During the Harper government (2006-2015), Canadian media, mostly notably the CBC, made little effort to balance the claims of global warming deniers with voices from science.[75] The Canadian coverage appeared to be driven more by national and international political events rather than the changes to carbon emissions or various other ecological factors.[75] The discourse was dominated by matters of government responsibility, policy-making, policy measures for mitigation, and ways to mitigate climate change; with the issue coverage by mass media outlets continuing to act as an important means of communicating environmental concerns to the general public, rather than introducing new ideas about the topic itself.[75]

Within various provincial and language media outlets, there are varying levels of articulation regarding scientific consensus and the focus on ecological dimensions of climate change.[75] Within Quebec, specifically, these outlets are more likely to position climate change as an international issue, and to link climate change to social justice concerns in order to depict Quebec as a pro-environmental society.[75]

Across various nations, including Canada, there has been an increased effort in the use of celebrities in climate change coverage, which is able to gain audience attention, but in turn, it reinforces individualized rather than structural interpretations of climate change responsibility and solutions.[75]

China Edit

See also: Climate change in China

Sweden Edit

See also: Climate change in Sweden

Japan Edit

See also: Climate change in Japan

In Japan, a study of newspaper coverage of climate change from January 1998 to July 2007 found coverage increased dramatically from January 2007.[76]

India Edit

See also: Climate change in India

A 2010 study of four major, national circulation English-language newspapers in India examined "the frames through which climate change is represented in India", and found that "The results strongly contrast with previous studies from developed countries; by framing climate change along a 'risk-responsibility divide', the Indian national press set up a strongly nationalistic position on climate change that divides the issue along both developmental and postcolonial lines."[77]

On the other hand, a qualitative analysis of some mainstream Indian newspapers (particularly opinion and editorial pieces) during the release of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report and during the Nobel Peace Prize win by Al Gore and the IPCC found that Indian media strongly pursue scientific certainty in their coverage of climate change. This is in contrast to the skepticism displayed by American newspapers at the time. Indian media highlights energy challenges, social progress, public accountability and looming disaster.[78]

Ireland Edit

Ireland has quite a low coverage of climate change in media. A survey created shows how the Irish Times had only 0.84% of news coverage for climate change in the space of 13 years. This percentage is low compared to the rest of Europe. For example- Coverage of climate change in Ireland 10.6 stories, while the rest of Europe lies within 58.4 stories.[79]

New Zealand Edit

See also: Climate change in New Zealand

A six-month study in 1988 on climate change reporting in the media found that 80% of stories were no worse than slightly inaccurate. However, one story in six contained significant misreporting.[80] Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth in conjunction with the Stern Review generated an increase in media interest in 2006.

The popular media in New Zealand often give equal weight to those supporting anthropogenic climate change and those who deny it. This stance is out of step with the findings of the scientific community where the vast majority support the climate change scenarios. A survey carried out in 2007 on climate change gave the following responses:[81]

Not really a problem 8%
A problem for the future 13%
A problem now 42%
An urgent and immediate problem 35%
Don't know 2%

Turkey Edit

See also: Greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey and Climate change in Turkey

According to journalist Pelin Cengiz mainstream media tends to cover newly opened coal-fired power stations in Turkey as increasing employment rather than climate change, and almost all owners have financial interests in fossil fuels.[82]

United Kingdom Edit

See also: Climate change in the United Kingdom § Media coverage

The Guardian newspaper is internationally respected for its coverage of climate change.[82]

United States Edit

See also: Climate change in the United States and Propaganda model § Applications

One of the first critical studies of media coverage of climate change in the United States appeared in 1999. The author summarized her research:[6]

Following a review of the decisive role of the media in American politics and of a few earlier studies of media bias, this paper examines media coverage of the greenhouse effect. It does so by comparing two pictures. The first picture emerges from reading all 100 greenhouse-related articles published over a five-month period (May–September 1997) in The Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post. The second picture emerges from the mainstream scientific literature. This comparison shows that media coverage of environmental issues suffers from both shallowness and pro-corporate bias.

According to Peter J. Jacques et al., the mainstream news media of the United States is an example of the effectiveness of environmental skepticism as a tactic.[83] A 2005 study reviewed and analyzed the US mass-media coverage of the environmental issue of climate change from 1988 to 2004. The authors confirm that within the journalism industry there is great emphasis on eliminating the presence of media bias. In their study they found that — due to this practice of journalistic objectivity — "Over a 15-year period, a majority (52.7%) of prestige-press articles featured balanced accounts that gave 'roughly equal attention' to the views that humans were contributing to global warming and that exclusively natural fluctuations could explain the earth's temperature increase [...] US mass-media have misrepresented the top climate scientific perspective regarding anthropogenic climate change." As a result, they observed that it is unsurprising for the public to believe that the issue of global warming and the accompanying scientific evidence is still hotly debated.[58]

A study of US newspapers and television news from 1995 to 2006 examined "how and why US media have represented conflict and contentions, despite an emergent consensus view regarding anthropogenic climate science." The IPCC Assessment Reports in 1995 and in 2001 established an increasingly strong scientific consensus, yet the media continued to present the science as contentious. The study noted the influence of Michael Crichton's 2004 novel State of Fear, which "empowered movements across scale, from individual perceptions to the perspectives of US federal powerbrokers regarding human contribution to climate change."[84]

A 2010 study concluded that "Mass media in the U.S. continue to suggest that scientific consensus estimates of global climate disruption, such as those from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), are 'exaggerated' and overly pessimistic. By contrast, work on the Asymmetry of Scientific Challenge (ASC) suggests that such consensus assessments are likely to understate climate disruptions [...] new scientific findings were more than twenty times as likely to support the ASC perspective than the usual framing of the issue in the U.S. mass media. The findings indicate that supposed challenges to the scientific consensus on global warming need to be subjected to greater scrutiny, as well as showing that, if reporters wish to discuss "both sides" of the climate issue, the scientifically legitimate 'other side' is that, if anything, global climate disruption may prove to be significantly worse than has been suggested in scientific consensus estimates to date."[85]

 
Scientific consensus on climate change (left) versus attitudes of Fox News guests in 2013 (right)[86]

The most watched news network in the United States, Fox News, most of the time promotes climate misinformation and employs tactics that distract from the urgency of global climate change, according to a 2019 study by Public Citizen. According to the study, 86% of Fox News segments that discussed the topic were "dismissive of the climate crisis, cast its consequences in doubt or employed fear mongering when discussing climate solutions." These segments presented global climate change as a political construct, rarely, if ever, discussing the threat posed by climate change or the vast body of scientific evidence for its existence. Consistent with such politicized framing, three messages were most commonly advanced in these segments: global climate change is part of a "big government" agenda of the Democratic Party (34% of segments); an effective response to the climate crisis would destroy the economy and hurtle us back to the Stone Age (26% of segments); and, concern about the climate crisis is "alarmists", "hysterical," the shrill voice of a "doomsday climate cult," or the like (12% of segments). Such segments often featured "experts" who are not climate scientists at all or are personally connected to vested interests, such as the energy industry and its network of lobbyists and think tanks, for example, the Heartland Institute, funded by the Exxon Mobil company and the Koch foundation. The remaining segments (14%) were neutral on the subject or presented information without editorializing.[87]

It has been suggested that the association of climate change with the Arctic in popular media may undermine effective communication of the scientific realities of anthropogenic climate change. The close association of images of Arctic glaciers, ice, and fauna with climate change might harbor cultural connotations that contradict the fragility of the region. For example, in cultural-historical narratives, the Arctic was depicted as an unconquerable, foreboding environment for explorers; in climate change discourse, the same environment is sought to be understood as fragile and easily affected by humanity.[88]

Gallup's annual update on Americans' attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years (2008-2010) has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to believe that scientist themselves are uncertain about its occurrence. In response to one key question, 48% of Americans now believe that the seriousness of global warming is generally exaggerated, up from 41% in 2009 and 31% in 1997, when Gallup first asked the question.[89]

Data from the Media Matters for America organization has shown that, despite 2015 being "a year marked by more landmark actions to address climate change than ever before," the combined climate coverage on the top broadcast networks was down by 5% from 2014.[90][91]

President Donald Trump denies the threat of global warming publicly. As a result of the Trump Presidency, media coverage on climate change was expected to decline during his term as president.[92][needs update]

Globally, media coverage of global warming and climate change decreased in 2020.[71] In the United States, however, newspaper coverage of climate change increased 29% between March 2020 and April 2020, these numbers are still 22% down from coverage in January 2020.[71] This spike in April 2020 can be attributed to the increased coverage of the "Covering Climate Now'' campaign and the US holiday of "Earth Day". The overall decline in climate change coverage in the year 2020 is related to the increased coverage and interconnectedness of COVID-19 and President Trump, without mention of climate change, that began in January 2020.[93]

The U.S. experienced its highest level of climate change media coverage to date in September and October 2021 [1]. This increase can be attributed to coverage of the United Nations Conference of Parties meeting which aimed to outline policies to address climate change [2].

See also Edit

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media, coverage, climate, change, effects, public, opinion, climate, change, conveys, scientific, consensus, climate, change, that, global, temperature, increased, recent, decades, that, trend, caused, human, induced, emissions, greenhouse, gases, global, warm. Media coverage of climate change has had effects on public opinion on climate change as it conveys the scientific consensus on climate change that the global temperature has increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused by human induced emissions of greenhouse gases 1 Global warming was the cover story of this 2007 issue of the liberal leaning feminist Ms magazine Climate change communication research shows that coverage has grown and become more accurate 2 11 Some researchers and journalists believe that media coverage of politics of climate change is adequate and fair while a few feel that it is biased 3 4 5 6 Contents 1 History 2 Common distortions 2 1 Factual 2 2 Narrative 2 3 Alarmism 3 Media politics and public discourse 3 1 Media policy interface 3 2 Discourses of action 3 3 Youth awareness and activism 4 Coverage by country 4 1 Australia 4 2 Canada 4 3 China 4 4 Sweden 4 5 Japan 4 6 India 4 7 Ireland 4 8 New Zealand 4 9 Turkey 4 10 United Kingdom 4 11 United States 5 See also 6 References 7 Further readingHistory Edit nbsp This 1902 article attributes to Swedish Nobel laureate chemistry Svante Arrhenius a theory that coal combustion could eventually lead to human extinction 7 nbsp This 1912 article succinctly describes the greenhouse effect focusing on how burning coal creates carbon dioxide that causes climate change 8 Media attention is especially high in carbon dependent countries with commitments under the Kyoto Protocol The way the media report on climate change in English speaking countries especially in the United States has been widely studied while studies of reporting in other countries have been less expansive 9 10 A number of studies have shown that particularly in the United States and in the UK tabloid press the media significantly understated the strength of scientific consensus on climate change established in IPCC Assessment Reports in 1995 and in 2001 A peak in media coverage occurred in early 2007 driven by the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and Al Gore s documentary An Inconvenient Truth 11 A subsequent peak in late 2009 which was 50 higher 12 may have been driven by a combination of the November 2009 Climatic Research Unit email controversy and December 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference 11 13 The Media and Climate Change Observatory team at the University of Colorado Boulder found that 2017 saw media attention to climate change and global warming ebb and flow with June seeing the maximum global media coverage on both subjects This rise is largely attributed to news surrounding United States US President Donald J Trump s withdrawal from the 2015 United Nations UN Paris Climate Agreement with continuing media attention paid to the emergent US isolation following through the G7 summit a few weeks later 14 Media coverage of climate change during the Trump Administration remained prominent as most news outlets placed heavy emphasis on Trump related stories rather than climate related events 15 This shift in media focus is referred to as Trump Dump and was shown to peak in times when the President was most active on Twitter Just in the year 2017 the word Trump was mentioned 19 187 times in stories covered by five of the nation s biggest press accounts with climate being the second most frequent word 15 In a 2020 article Mark Kaufman of Mashable noted that the English Wikipedia s article on climate change has hundreds of credible citations which counters the stereotype that publicly policed collaboratively edited Wikipedia pages are inherently unreliable 16 Common distortions EditFactual Edit Scientists and media scholars who express frustrations with inadequate science reporting argue that it can lead to at least three basic distortions First journalists distort reality by making scientific errors Second they distort by keying on human interest stories rather than scientific content And third journalists distort by rigid adherence to the construct of balanced coverage 17 18 19 20 21 22 excessive citations Bord O Connor amp Fisher 1998 argue that responsible citizenry necessitates a concrete knowledge of causes and that until for example the public understands what causes climate change it cannot be expected to take voluntary action to mitigate its effects 23 In 2022 the IPCC reported that Accurate transference of the climate science has been undermined significantly by climate change countermovements in both legacy and new social media environments through misinformation 2 11 Narrative Edit According to Shoemaker and Reese controversy is one of the main variables affecting story choice among news editors along with human interest prominence timeliness celebrity and proximity Coverage of climate change has been accused of falling victim to the journalistic norm of personalization 24 W L Bennet defines this trait as the tendency to downplay the big social economic or political picture in favor of human trials tragedies and triumphs 25 The culture of political journalism has long used the notion of balanced coverage in covering the controversy In this construct it is permissible to air a highly partisan opinion provided this view is accompanied by a competing opinion But recently scientists and scholars have challenged the legitimacy of this journalistic core value with regard to matters of great importance on which the overwhelming majority of the scientific community has reached a well substantiated consensus view In a survey of 636 articles from four top United States newspapers between 1988 and 2002 two scholars found that most articles gave as much time to the small group of climate change doubters as to the scientific consensus view 17 Given real consensus among climatologists over global warming many scientists find the media s desire to portray the topic as a scientific controversy to be a gross distortion As Stephen Schneider put it 20 a mainstream well established consensus may be balanced against the opposing views of a few extremists and to the uninformed each position seems equally credible Science journalism concerns itself with gathering and evaluating various types of relevant evidence and rigorously checking sources and facts Boyce Rensberger the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Knight Center for Science Journalism said balanced coverage of science does not mean giving equal weight to both sides of an argument It means apportioning weight according to the balance of evidence 26 The claims of scientists also get distorted by the media by a tendency to seek out extreme views which can result in portrayal of risks well beyond the claims actually being made by scientists 27 Journalists tend to overemphasize the most extreme outcomes from a range of possibilities reported in scientific articles A study that tracked press reports about a climate change article in the journal Nature found that results and conclusions of the study were widely misrepresented especially in the news media to make the consequences seem more catastrophic and the timescale shorter 28 A 2020 study in PNAS found that newspapers tended to give greater coverage of press releases that opposed action on climate change than those that supported action The study attributes it to false balance 29 Research that was done by Todd Newman Erik Nisbet and Matthew Nisbet shows that people s partisan preference is an indicator as to which media outlet they will most likely consume Most media outlets often align with a particular partisan ideology This causes people to resort to selective exposure which influences views on world issues such as climate change beliefs 30 Since 1990 climate scientists have communicated urgent warnings while simultaneously experiencing the media converting their statements into sensational entertainment 31 Alarmism Edit Alarmism is using inflated language including an urgent tone and imagery of doom citation needed In a report produced for the Institute for Public Policy Research Gill Ereaut and Nat Segnit suggested that alarmist language is frequently used in relation to environmental matters by newspapers popular magazines and in campaign literature put out by the government and environment groups 32 It is claimed that when applied to climate change alarmist language can create a greater sense of urgency 33 It has been argued that using sensational and alarming techniques often evoke denial paralysis or apathy rather than motivating individuals to action and do not motivate people to become engaged with the issue of climate change 34 35 In the context of climate refugees the potential for climate change to displace people it has been reported that alarmist hyperbole is frequently employed by private military contractors and think tanks 36 The term alarmist has been used as a pejorative by critics of mainstream climate science to describe those that endorse the scientific consensus without necessarily being unreasonable 37 MIT meteorologist Kerry Emanuel wrote that labeling someone as an alarmist is a particularly infantile smear considering what is at stake He continued that using this inflammatory terminology has a distinctly Orwellian flavor 38 Some media reports have used alarmist tactics to challenge the science related to global warming by comparing it with a purported episode of global cooling In the 1970s global cooling a claim with limited scientific support even during the height of a media frenzy over global cooling the possibility of anthropogenic warming dominated the peer reviewed literature was widely reported in the press 39 Several media pieces have claimed that since the even at the time poorly supported theory of global cooling was shown to be false that the well supported theory of global warming can also be dismissed For example an article in The Hindu by Kapista and Bashkirtsev wrote Who remembers today they query that in the 1970s when global temperatures began to dip many warned that we faced a new ice age An editorial in The Time magazine on June 24 1974 quoted concerned scientists as voicing alarm over the atmosphere growing gradually cooler for the past three decades the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland and other harbingers of an ice age that could prove catastrophic Man was blamed for global cooling as he is blamed today for global warming 40 and the Irish Independent published an article claiming that The widespread alarm over global warming is only the latest scare about the environment to come our way since the 1960s Let s go through some of them Almost exactly 30 years ago the world was in another panic about climate change However it wasn t the thought of global warming that concerned us It was the fear of its opposite global cooling The doom sayers were wrong in the past and it s entirely possible they re wrong this time as well 41 Numerous other examples exist 42 43 44 Media politics and public discourse EditAs McCombs et al s 1972 study of the political function of mass media showed media coverage of an issue can play an important part in shaping political reality 45 Research into media coverage of climate change has demonstrated the significant role of the media in determining climate policy formation 46 The media has considerable bearing on public opinion and the way in which issues are reported or framed establishes a particular discourse 47 Media policy interface Edit The relationship between media and politics is reflexive As Feindt amp Oels state media discourse has material and power effects as well as being the effect of material practices and power relations 48 Public support of climate change research ultimately decides whether or not funding for the research is made available to scientists and institutions Media coverage in the United States during the Bush Administration often emphasized and exaggerated scientific uncertainty over climate change reflecting the interests of the political elite 46 Hall et al suggest that government and corporate officials enjoy privileged access to the media allowing their line to become the primary definer of an issue 49 Media sources and their institutions very often have political leanings which determine their reporting on climate change mirroring the views of a particular party 50 However media also has the capacity to challenge political norms and expose corrupt behaviour 51 as demonstrated in 2007 when The Guardian revealed that American Enterprise Institute received 10 000 from petrochemical giant Exxon Mobil to publish articles undermining the IPCC s 4th assessment report Ever strengthening scientific consensus on climate change means that skepticism is becoming less prevalent in the media although the email scandal in the build up to Copenhagen reinvigorated climate skepticism in the media 52 failed verification Discourses of action Edit nbsp The polar bear has become a symbol for those attempting to generate support for addressing climate change Commentators have argued that the climate change discourses constructed in the media have not been conducive to generating the political will for swift action The polar bear has become a powerful discursive symbol in the fight against climate change However such images may create a perception of climate change impacts as geographically distant 53 and MacNaghten argues that climate change needs to be framed as an issue closer to home 54 On the other hand Beck suggests that a major benefit of global media is that it brings distant issues within our consciousness 55 Furthermore media coverage of climate change particularly in tabloid journalism but also more generally is concentrated around extreme weather events and projections of catastrophe creating a language of imminent terror 56 which some commentators argue has instilled policy paralysis and inhibited response Moser et al suggest using solution orientated frames will help inspire action to solve climate change 57 The predominance of catastrophe frames over solution frames 58 may help explain the apparent value action gap with climate change the current discursive setting has generated concern over climate change but not inspired action Breaking the prevailing notions in society requires discourse that is traditionally appropriate and approachable to common people For example Bill McKibben an environmental activist provides one approach to inspiring action a war like mobilization where climate change is the enemy This approach could resonate with working Americans who normally find themselves occupied with other news headlines 59 Compared to what experts know about traditional media s and tabloid journalism s impacts on the formation of public perceptions of climate change and willingness to act there is comparatively little knowledge of the impacts of social media including message platforms like Twitter on public attitudes toward climate change 60 In recent years there has been an increase in the influence and role that social media plays in conveying opinions and knowledge through information sharing There are several emerging studies that explore the connection between social media and the public s awareness of climate change Anderson found that there is evidence that social media can raise awareness of climate change issues but warns that it can also lead to opinion dominated ideologies and reinforcement 61 Another study examined datasets from Twitter to assess the ideas and attitudes that users of the application held toward climate change 62 Williams et al found that users tend to be active in groups that share the same opinions often at the extremes of the spectrum resulting in less polarized opinions between the groups 62 These studies show that social media can have both a negative and positive impact on the information sharing of issues related to climate change 61 62 Youth awareness and activism Edit Published in the journal Childhood the article Children s protest in relation to the climate emergency A qualitative study on a new form of resistance promoting political and social change considers how children have evolved into prominent actors to create a global impact on awareness of climate change It highlights the work of children like Greta Thunberg and the significance of their resistance to the passivity of world leaders regarding climate change It also discusses how individual resistance can directly be linked to collective resistance and that this then creates a more powerful impact empowering young people to act more responsibly and take authority over the future The article discusses the potential impact of youth to raise awareness while also inspiring action and using social media platforms to share the message 63 Coverage by country Edit nbsp Results of a survey in 31 countries of public opinion on the causes of climate change in 2021 64 Australia Edit See also Climate change in AustraliaAustralian news outlets have been reported to present misleading claims and information 65 One article from The Australian in 2009 claimed that climate change and global warming were fraudulent claims pushed by so called warmaholics 66 non primary source needed Many other examples of claims that dismiss climate change have been posted by media outlets in Australia throughout the years following as well 67 68 69 The 2013 summer and heat wave colloquially known as Angry Summer attracted a great deal of media attention although few outlets directly linked the unprecedented heat to climate change 70 As the world entered into 2020 global media coverage of climate change issues decreased and COVID 19 coverage increased In Australia there was a 34 decrease in climate change articles published from March 2020 71 A 2022 analysis found that Sky News Australia was a major source of climate misinformation globally 72 Australia has recently experienced some of the most intense bushfire seasons in its immediate history This phenomenon has sparked extensive media coverage both nationally and internationally Much of the media coverage of the 2019 and 2020 Australian bushfire seasons discussed the different factors that lead to and increase the chances of extreme fire seasons 73 A climate scientist Nerilie Abram at Australian National University explained in an article for Scientific American that the four major conditions need to exist for wildfire and those include available fuel dryness of that fuel weather conditions that aid the rapid spread of fire and an ignition 74 Canada Edit This section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information May 2019 Further information Environmental policy of the Harper government Media coverage of climate change During the Harper government 2006 2015 Canadian media mostly notably the CBC made little effort to balance the claims of global warming deniers with voices from science 75 The Canadian coverage appeared to be driven more by national and international political events rather than the changes to carbon emissions or various other ecological factors 75 The discourse was dominated by matters of government responsibility policy making policy measures for mitigation and ways to mitigate climate change with the issue coverage by mass media outlets continuing to act as an important means of communicating environmental concerns to the general public rather than introducing new ideas about the topic itself 75 Within various provincial and language media outlets there are varying levels of articulation regarding scientific consensus and the focus on ecological dimensions of climate change 75 Within Quebec specifically these outlets are more likely to position climate change as an international issue and to link climate change to social justice concerns in order to depict Quebec as a pro environmental society 75 Across various nations including Canada there has been an increased effort in the use of celebrities in climate change coverage which is able to gain audience attention but in turn it reinforces individualized rather than structural interpretations of climate change responsibility and solutions 75 China Edit See also Climate change in ChinaThis section is empty You can help by adding to it August 2021 Sweden Edit See also Climate change in Sweden Japan Edit See also Climate change in Japan In Japan a study of newspaper coverage of climate change from January 1998 to July 2007 found coverage increased dramatically from January 2007 76 India Edit See also Climate change in India A 2010 study of four major national circulation English language newspapers in India examined the frames through which climate change is represented in India and found that The results strongly contrast with previous studies from developed countries by framing climate change along a risk responsibility divide the Indian national press set up a strongly nationalistic position on climate change that divides the issue along both developmental and postcolonial lines 77 On the other hand a qualitative analysis of some mainstream Indian newspapers particularly opinion and editorial pieces during the release of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report and during the Nobel Peace Prize win by Al Gore and the IPCC found that Indian media strongly pursue scientific certainty in their coverage of climate change This is in contrast to the skepticism displayed by American newspapers at the time Indian media highlights energy challenges social progress public accountability and looming disaster 78 Ireland Edit Ireland has quite a low coverage of climate change in media A survey created shows how the Irish Times had only 0 84 of news coverage for climate change in the space of 13 years This percentage is low compared to the rest of Europe For example Coverage of climate change in Ireland 10 6 stories while the rest of Europe lies within 58 4 stories 79 New Zealand Edit This section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information November 2019 See also Climate change in New Zealand A six month study in 1988 on climate change reporting in the media found that 80 of stories were no worse than slightly inaccurate However one story in six contained significant misreporting 80 Al Gore s film An Inconvenient Truth in conjunction with the Stern Review generated an increase in media interest in 2006 The popular media in New Zealand often give equal weight to those supporting anthropogenic climate change and those who deny it This stance is out of step with the findings of the scientific community where the vast majority support the climate change scenarios A survey carried out in 2007 on climate change gave the following responses 81 Not really a problem 8 A problem for the future 13 A problem now 42 An urgent and immediate problem 35 Don t know 2 dd Turkey Edit See also Greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey and Climate change in Turkey According to journalist Pelin Cengiz mainstream media tends to cover newly opened coal fired power stations in Turkey as increasing employment rather than climate change and almost all owners have financial interests in fossil fuels 82 United Kingdom Edit See also Climate change in the United Kingdom Media coverage The Guardian newspaper is internationally respected for its coverage of climate change 82 United States Edit See also Climate change in the United States and Propaganda model ApplicationsOne of the first critical studies of media coverage of climate change in the United States appeared in 1999 The author summarized her research 6 Following a review of the decisive role of the media in American politics and of a few earlier studies of media bias this paper examines media coverage of the greenhouse effect It does so by comparing two pictures The first picture emerges from reading all 100 greenhouse related articles published over a five month period May September 1997 in The Christian Science Monitor New York Times The San Francisco Chronicle and The Washington Post The second picture emerges from the mainstream scientific literature This comparison shows that media coverage of environmental issues suffers from both shallowness and pro corporate bias According to Peter J Jacques et al the mainstream news media of the United States is an example of the effectiveness of environmental skepticism as a tactic 83 A 2005 study reviewed and analyzed the US mass media coverage of the environmental issue of climate change from 1988 to 2004 The authors confirm that within the journalism industry there is great emphasis on eliminating the presence of media bias In their study they found that due to this practice of journalistic objectivity Over a 15 year period a majority 52 7 of prestige press articles featured balanced accounts that gave roughly equal attention to the views that humans were contributing to global warming and that exclusively natural fluctuations could explain the earth s temperature increase US mass media have misrepresented the top climate scientific perspective regarding anthropogenic climate change As a result they observed that it is unsurprising for the public to believe that the issue of global warming and the accompanying scientific evidence is still hotly debated 58 A study of US newspapers and television news from 1995 to 2006 examined how and why US media have represented conflict and contentions despite an emergent consensus view regarding anthropogenic climate science The IPCC Assessment Reports in 1995 and in 2001 established an increasingly strong scientific consensus yet the media continued to present the science as contentious The study noted the influence of Michael Crichton s 2004 novel State of Fear which empowered movements across scale from individual perceptions to the perspectives of US federal powerbrokers regarding human contribution to climate change 84 A 2010 study concluded that Mass media in the U S continue to suggest that scientific consensus estimates of global climate disruption such as those from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC are exaggerated and overly pessimistic By contrast work on the Asymmetry of Scientific Challenge ASC suggests that such consensus assessments are likely to understate climate disruptions new scientific findings were more than twenty times as likely to support the ASC perspective than the usual framing of the issue in the U S mass media The findings indicate that supposed challenges to the scientific consensus on global warming need to be subjected to greater scrutiny as well as showing that if reporters wish to discuss both sides of the climate issue the scientifically legitimate other side is that if anything global climate disruption may prove to be significantly worse than has been suggested in scientific consensus estimates to date 85 nbsp Scientific consensus on climate change left versus attitudes of Fox News guests in 2013 right 86 The most watched news network in the United States Fox News most of the time promotes climate misinformation and employs tactics that distract from the urgency of global climate change according to a 2019 study by Public Citizen According to the study 86 of Fox News segments that discussed the topic were dismissive of the climate crisis cast its consequences in doubt or employed fear mongering when discussing climate solutions These segments presented global climate change as a political construct rarely if ever discussing the threat posed by climate change or the vast body of scientific evidence for its existence Consistent with such politicized framing three messages were most commonly advanced in these segments global climate change is part of a big government agenda of the Democratic Party 34 of segments an effective response to the climate crisis would destroy the economy and hurtle us back to the Stone Age 26 of segments and concern about the climate crisis is alarmists hysterical the shrill voice of a doomsday climate cult or the like 12 of segments Such segments often featured experts who are not climate scientists at all or are personally connected to vested interests such as the energy industry and its network of lobbyists and think tanks for example the Heartland Institute funded by the Exxon Mobil company and the Koch foundation The remaining segments 14 were neutral on the subject or presented information without editorializing 87 It has been suggested that the association of climate change with the Arctic in popular media may undermine effective communication of the scientific realities of anthropogenic climate change The close association of images of Arctic glaciers ice and fauna with climate change might harbor cultural connotations that contradict the fragility of the region For example in cultural historical narratives the Arctic was depicted as an unconquerable foreboding environment for explorers in climate change discourse the same environment is sought to be understood as fragile and easily affected by humanity 88 Gallup s annual update on Americans attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years 2008 2010 has become less worried about the threat of global warming less convinced that its effects are already happening and more likely to believe that scientist themselves are uncertain about its occurrence In response to one key question 48 of Americans now believe that the seriousness of global warming is generally exaggerated up from 41 in 2009 and 31 in 1997 when Gallup first asked the question 89 Data from the Media Matters for America organization has shown that despite 2015 being a year marked by more landmark actions to address climate change than ever before the combined climate coverage on the top broadcast networks was down by 5 from 2014 90 91 President Donald Trump denies the threat of global warming publicly As a result of the Trump Presidency media coverage on climate change was expected to decline during his term as president 92 needs update Globally media coverage of global warming and climate change decreased in 2020 71 In the United States however newspaper coverage of climate change increased 29 between March 2020 and April 2020 these numbers are still 22 down from coverage in January 2020 71 This spike in April 2020 can be attributed to the increased coverage of the Covering Climate Now campaign and the US holiday of Earth Day The overall decline in climate change coverage in the year 2020 is related to the increased coverage and interconnectedness of COVID 19 and President Trump without mention of climate change that began in January 2020 93 The U S experienced its highest level of climate change media coverage to date in September and October 2021 1 This increase can be attributed to coverage of the United Nations Conference of Parties meeting which aimed to outline policies to address climate change 2 See also Edit nbsp 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