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Sep 18, 2020 12 tweets 9 min read Read on X
📢BIG NEWS📢

@EndClimtSilence has teamed up with @DataProgress to poll voters about their attitudes to climate media coverage.

Did previous findings replicate?

✨YES✨

💥Americans want to hear about the #ClimateCrisis in the broadcast news!💥

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💥A MAJORITY OF VOTERS FOLLOW CLIMATE CHANGE CLOSELY IN THE NEWS💥

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💥A MAJORITY OF VOTERS THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR THE NEWS MEDIA TO CONNECT CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTRME WEATHER EVENTS💥

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💥AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF VOTERS WANT TO HEAR IF CLIMATE CHANGE IS WORSENING AN EXTREME WEATHER EVENT💥

79% OF DEMOCRATS
68% OF INDEPENDENTS
66% OF REPUBLICANS

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💥A MAJORITY OF VOTERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO USE NEWS SOURCES THAT CONNECT CLIMATE CHANGE TO EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS💥

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💥A MAJORITY OF VOTERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO USE NEWS SOURCES THAT PROVIDE MORE STORIES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE💥

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To give voters the information they need to make decisions in an increasingly chaotic world, the media must cover the #ClimateCrisis with the accuracy and urgency it deserves. They can feel confident that it is not only the right thing to do, but also what voters want.

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Read the full @DataProgress blog post, a collab by me and the lovely and brilliant @x3Marcela_ & @danielledeis. 💚

#EndClimateSilence

dataforprogress.org/blog/2020/9/17…

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This report really signals a contradiction at the heart of our current climate politics.

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One of the most powerful English professors of the past 40 years stole an argument I made in a seminar presentation, turning it into the core of his next book.

The week after my presentation, he came into the classroom and...

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It should be read by every policymaker, decisionmaker, and journalist on the planet.

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Here is fossil fuel companies' new defense in lawsuits accusing them of deceiving the public about climate change:

They perpetrated no deception, they say, because the "alleged impact of fossil fuel use on the global climate has been ‘open and obvious’ for decades."

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They're calling us stupid, you know.

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Talk about wanting to have it both ways! Is the impact obvious, or is it "alleged"?

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@YaleClimateComm Most people are still unsure if climate change is even happening or human-caused; or they think about it not at all; or they dismiss it completely; or, at best, they are concerned but believe, mistakenly, that the problem is still distant in time and space. MOST PEOPLE.

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