Last week on a panel, some colleagues told me that the news media is doing a good job covering the climate crisis. I disagreed.
Turns out I was right: "Just 3% of broadcast TV news segments on the California wildfires connected them to climate change."
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Turns out I was right: "Just 3% of broadcast TV news segments on the California wildfires connected them to climate change."
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I feel quite strongly that our media is abdicating its responsibility to talk about the climate crisis. To try to chip away at the silence, I've been working with @EmilyLyWilliams and @ClimateSignals to make fact sheets. You can send them to journalists!
@EmilyLyWilliams @ClimateSignals I also went on TV myself last week, and when asked about the wildfires, I gave the facts. Two times as much land in the West has burned because of climate change. We have 500% more risk for wildfires. Our scientists know this. Why don't our journalists?
@EmilyLyWilliams @ClimateSignals It’s not just the American news media that's failing to cover the climate crisis. In Australia, just 1 in 20 news articles about the drought since 2017 even mention climate change. Around the world, our media is failing us. h/t @KetanJ0
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