Sentences with phrase «climate change in their coverage»

Why then did the mainstream media devote more time to Vice President Joe Biden's smile than to climate change in their coverage of this year's elections?

And in a year when hurricanes and other forms of extreme weather hammered the U.S., the networks hardly ever mentioned climate change in their coverage of those disasters.

According to Media Matters, during the massive heat waves that swept the continent this past summer, news outlets like ABC, Fox News, and CNN barely mentioned the role of climate change in their coverage (the only time Fox even mentioned climate change was when they were deriding it.)

The report has resulted in the BBC deciding to reflect scientific consensus about climate change in their coverage of the issue.

Not exact matches

Steve also led our coverage of the COP21 climate change talks in 2015.

I know broadcast meterologists» first job is to protect life and property, but on this Earth Day, I wonder how many of my former colleagues have mentioned climate change in their longform coverage of these natural disasters.

Mr Moraes said a gap existed between the importance of European issues and their coverage in British reporting, citing temporary agency workers» rights, climate change, and working time as key issues currently affecting the UK.

This «disaster» story is by far the most common one in the coverage of climate change, as shown by several studies.

Moreover, 2010 in general witnessed a significant decline in coverage of climate change around the world.

A «coverage gap» in future years The agency had sought $ 910 million this year for its Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), which will provide data for weather forecasts, search - and - rescue operations and climate change research.

The authors urge increased coverage of climate change in a public health context to bridge the knowledge gap between the public health community and the general public to encourage mitigating steps.

Despite a drop in coverage, those framed in a public health context sharply increased, especially in relation to heat and general health, evidence of public health framing as an effective means to communicate climate change.

Steve: Go to http://www.ScientificAmerican.com for more of Mark Fischetti's coverage of the activities at the AGU meeting as well as reporting from David Biello, our man at the U.N. Climate Change negotiations in Durban, South Africa.

What is clear is that the BBC is harming the public interest by sacrificing accuracy for impartiality in its coverage of climate change.

She announced in New York City on September 21st the results of an analysis of climate change coverage at two major properties of the News Corporation, the Fox News Channel and The Wall Street Journal.

According to the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, news coverage of climate change in 50 newspapers around the globe dropped by more than half in late 2009 to 2010.

The publication of each report is a key event in the debate about climate change, but their reception and coverage in the media has varied widely.

By making such an abrupt budget change, NASA will mothball or abandon half - built (in some cases, fully built) hardware, lose expertise developed at great effort, and leave gaps in data coverage, notably of the earth's climate.

I just had to tell this story of this session that I was in basically talking about media coverage of climate change.

Anniversary coverage was much more likely to bring up policy problems connected to the systemic causes of human vulnerability to wildfire hazards — development in the wildland - urban interface, legacies of wildfire suppression and climate change, to name a few examples.

«Our findings clearly demonstrate that if future protected area expansion continues in a «business - as - usual» fashion, threatened species coverage will increase only marginally,» said Associate Professor James Watson, WCS's Climate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, and senior author on the study.

Following the leak of internal Heartland Institute documents, six universities with faculty listed in Heartland's budget for work relating to denying the science or implications of global climate change received letters from Greenpeace asking for conflict of interest investigations (see the Chronicle of Higher Education's coverage).

I can only conclude that Broad has a mission when writing about climate change: To correct what he perceives to be errors in the record and restore a sense of balance to journalistic coverage that he thinks has tilted too far in the direction of climate alarmism.

[44] Factors limiting or threatening current population levels include ship strikes, entanglement in fishing gear, and changes in sea - ice coverage associated with climate change.

It's unfortunate that this loss or delay of valuable information that would support solid policy shift on mitigating climate change and reducing impacts including saving human lives, is not given more meaningful coverage in mainstream press.

If I recall right, the challenge for RealClimate, according to Nature's editors in their «Welcome climate bloggers» editorial of 23/30 December 2004, is «to change the media coverage of their discipline.»

Both suggest the press is more interested in sensationalism than in realities, which is certainly true of MSM climate change coverage.

I've seen some brief mention of climate change principles in high school texts, but I would be interested in whether others have discovered texts with more adequate coverage appropriate at the middle or high school level.

Another pointer to a journalist's weblog (that commends this particular Realclimate thread) quoted from Benny Peiser today: ---- Quote It's an odd day when I find myself agreeing with Benny Peiser on a climate change question, but his post Thursday to his CCNet list, in which he blasted media of coverage of the Nature paper on possible changes in the thermohaline circulation, seems on point.

In the original programme we also touch on frogs and the huge amounts of coverage giving to the frogs killed by climate change story.

We discussed the many hurdles in the newsroom that impede effective coverage of climate change — from the potentially distorting lure of the front - page thought to the distorting power of journalistic balance, if applied blindly in coverage of complicated science.

P.S., In fresh article published in Iternational Herald Tribune (Global warming's PR problem) Andrew C. Revkin gives comprehensive and intelligent account of the climate - change media coverage which gives me some hope in terms of the journalists understanding of the problem.In fresh article published in Iternational Herald Tribune (Global warming's PR problem) Andrew C. Revkin gives comprehensive and intelligent account of the climate - change media coverage which gives me some hope in terms of the journalists understanding of the problem.in Iternational Herald Tribune (Global warming's PR problem) Andrew C. Revkin gives comprehensive and intelligent account of the climate - change media coverage which gives me some hope in terms of the journalists understanding of the problem.in terms of the journalists understanding of the problem...

Prudence dictates that no serious student of climate change place much weight on transient events like ice coverage (or lack of it) until such transients become trends in their own right.

As many of us seem to be saying (you might call it, pleading), the Times can and should play an important role in that, but it will have to «step up» its coverage a few notches on this particular issue, i.e., global climate change.

I have stumbled onto Carbon Capture Report, a Web site maintained by the University of Illinois to track global news coverage of climate change and work on capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide (a big focus in Illinois and other states with significant coal resources).

There's some great new coverage out there, including Andrew Freedman's piece on Climate Central, «In Much of U.S., Extreme Cold is Becoming More Rare,» and Terrell Johnson's Weather Channel post, «Polar Vortex and Climate Change: Why Rush Limbaugh and Others Are Wrong.»

Week in Review: Ah, the Week in Review section ought to be full of climate change coverage this week, given everything that is happening (Bali, letters, reports, etc.), the importance of the issue, and the nearness of the election process, right?

To set the recent trend in broader context, check out sociologist Robert Brulle's graph tracking network news coverage of global warming and the following graph of newspaper coverage of climate change from 1980 to 2006 (a separate newspaper sample) from Dr. Boykoff's recent paper in Nature Reports — Climate climate change from 1980 to 2006 (a separate newspaper sample) from Dr. Boykoff's recent paper in Nature Reports — Climate Cchange from 1980 to 2006 (a separate newspaper sample) from Dr. Boykoff's recent paper in Nature Reports — Climate Climate ChangeChange:

As for the media coverage, there's no need for conspiracy theories, since the explanation by Herman and Chomsky of the political economy of the mass media («Manufacturing Consent») seems to me very relevant in media coverage of climate change, peakoil and SLR.

The piece caught my eye because, in sifting through New York Times archives a few years ago while researching my book on the changing Arctic, I found what I believe is our first substantial newspaper coverage of research pointing to the prospect that humans could substantially warm the climate — a 1956 article on Plass's work by Waldemar Kaempffert.

Regardless of what one may think of their purpose for this report or their likely position on AGW, I think there presentation of the wild swings in media coverage of changing climate is probably about right.

[UPDATE, 1/14: Max Boykoff at the University of Colorado, has posted a chart showing a sharp spike in media coverage of climate change in late December.

Another way of saying it: Although we are seeing less outright false balance in climate coverage than a decade or two ago, bias against mainstream science understanding persists in the relatively subtle form of selective reporting of eyebrow - raising claims, which strengthen the impression that scientists are always changing their story, in which case, shrug.

On this particular issue of climate change, the Times will have to shift, in my view, from the normal journalistic paradigm (e.g., try to give equal coverage to both «sides» of a story; communicate stories in a muted way by avoiding most words that convey passion and weight; rotate the news so that even important topics only see the front page once in awhile; keep views to the back pages; avoid upsetting big advertisers too much; and so forth) to what might be called a «wisdom paradigm» (face problems, understand problems, communicate your views loudly and up front, address problems, and so forth).

Krosnik is a thoughtful scholar of the interplay between media coverage and public understanding of and opinions about climate change whose views are worth a gander if you're interested in this question.

In the fall of 1997, there was a large burst of news media coverage of climate change (that was when the Clinton Administration tried to win congressional approval of the Kyoto treaty).

Have a look at the following article, found on http://www.climateark.org, with coverage of the conference and the Catholic Church's rapidly increasing attention to climate change and the environment in general.

Jeff Huggins [ANDY REVKIN responds: Jeff, I greatly appreciate your critique of our coverage, but I think maybe you missed some of our cutting - edge series and stories on the science, politics, and economics of climate change — perhaps because we've led other media in some cases by several years on key developments.

It is not that the polar regions are amplifying the warming «going on» at lower latitudes, it is that any warming going on AT THE POLES is amplified through inherent positive feedback processes AT THE POLES, and specifically this is primarily the ice - albedo positive feedback process whereby more open water leads to more warming leads to more open water, etc. *** «Climate model simulations have shown that ice albedo feedbacks associated with variations in snow and sea - ice coverage are a key factor in positive feedback mechanisms which amplify climate change at high northern latitudes...Climate model simulations have shown that ice albedo feedbacks associated with variations in snow and sea - ice coverage are a key factor in positive feedback mechanisms which amplify climate change at high northern latitudes...climate change at high northern latitudes...»

«Climate model simulations have shown that ice albedo feedbacks associated with variations in snow and sea - ice coverage are a key factor in positive feedback mechanisms which amplify climate change at high northern latitudes...Climate model simulations have shown that ice albedo feedbacks associated with variations in snow and sea - ice coverage are a key factor in positive feedback mechanisms which amplify climate change at high northern latitudes...climate change at high northern latitudes...»