{"id":7268,"date":"2015-04-13T05:43:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T10:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7268"},"modified":"2015-04-13T05:43:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T10:43:01","slug":"media-coverage-of-climate-science-is-stunting-climate-action-especially-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7268","title":{"rendered":"Media Coverage of Climate Science Is Stunting Climate Action, Especially in US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media Coverage of Climate Science Is Stunting Climate Action, Especially in US<\/a><\/h3>\n

The\u00a0UN<\/span>\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change plays an enormous role in shaping how climate science gets translated into policy in countries around the world, but so does the media.<\/p>\n

A new report finds that, while the\u00a0IPCC<\/span>could have managed the rollout of itsFifth Assessment Report<\/a>\u00a0(AR<\/span>5) better, lack of compelling coverage, especially in\u00a0US<\/span>\u00a0media, is leading to less public demand for action and hence political will to adopt policies to deal with climate change.<\/p>\n

The report,\u00a0published in Nature Climate Change<\/a>, examines how theIPCC<\/span>\u2019s release strategy around\u00a0AR<\/span>5 contributed to diminishing returns in terms of media coverage, as well as the ways media outlets chose to frame the issue and how that impacts public perception of climate issues.<\/p>\n

Researchers with the University of Exeter studied print, broadcast, and online media in both the\u00a0US<\/span>\u00a0and the\u00a0UK<\/span>\u00a0and found that the biggest difference was that there is simply more climate coverage in the\u00a0UK<\/span>. A lot more: three times as many articles and five times as many broadcasts were dedicated to climate change in theUK<\/span>\u00a0as in the\u00a0US<\/span>.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not just more climate coverage in the\u00a0UK<\/span>, but less divisive coverage, too, largely due to the fact that the climate is such a partisan issue in the\u00a0US<\/span>, which is not as true in the\u00a0UK<\/span>. (Although that’s changing quickly, as our colleagues atDeSmog\u00a0UK<\/span><\/a>\u00a0investigate every day.)<\/p>\n

The\u00a0IPCC<\/span>\u00a0chose to release each of the three individual Working Group reports that make up\u00a0AR<\/span>5 sequentially, releasing\u00a0WG<\/span>1 (The Physical Science Basis) in Autumn 2013, with\u00a0WG<\/span>2 (Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability) and\u00a0WG<\/span>3 (Mitigation of Climate Change) released close together in Spring 2014.<\/p>\n

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Media Coverage of Climate Science Is Stunting Climate Action, Especially in US The\u00a0UN\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change plays an enormous role in shaping how climate science gets translated into policy in countries around the world, but so does the media. A new report finds that, while the\u00a0IPCCcould have managed the rollout of itsFifth Assessment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,435,440,512,820,822,826,834],"class_list":["post-7268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-international-panel-on-climate-change","tag-ipcc","tag-media","tag-uk","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7269,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions\/7269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}