Not exact matches
Some of the differences were touched on
in my recent
coverage of new analysis attributing some
changes in extreme precipitation
in the Northern Hemisphere to human - driven global warming.
For example, let's say that evidence convinced me (
in a way that I wasn't convinced previously) that all recent
changes in land surface temperatures and sea surface temperatures and atmospheric temperatures and deep sea temperatures and sea ice extent and sea ice volume and sea ice density and moisture content
in the air and cloud
coverage and rainfall and measures of
extreme weather were all directly tied to internal natural variability, and that I can now see that as the result of a statistical modeling of the trends as associated with natural phenomena.
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.
We examine five factors that should account for
changes in levels of concern: 1)
extreme weather events, 2) public access to accurate scientific information, 3) media
coverage, 4) elite cues, and 5) movement / countermovement advocacy.
A Media Matters analysis finds that news
coverage of climate
change on ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX remained low
in 2012 despite record temperatures and a series of
extreme weather events
in the U.S..