Scientists Call On Media To Report The Crisis

Cover the climate crisis like it is one

Dawn Stover, July 8, 2019 (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

“…[T]he Paris Agreement is obsolete. The temperature recently reached 113 degrees Fahrenheit in Paris, a city where many buildings don’t have air conditioning. In the United States, more than 70 medical groups urged political candidates ‘to recognize climate change as a health emergency.’…[And] the term ‘climate change’ is not only worn-out and boring, but also politically fraught…Many of the world’s largest news organizations simply aren’t telling the climate story with anything approaching the urgency and attention they devote to a glut of trivial subjects…[What is needed is] a well-funded commitment to publish more and better stories on one of the most important, life-threatening issues of our time…

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…[The UK Guardian newspaper and the Spanish-language network Telemundo have begun regularly] using the term ‘climate emergency’…Environmental groups have been pressuring other news organizations to follow suit. The Sierra Club, Greenpeace, 350.org, and others sent a June 6 letter urging the heads of Fox, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN to ‘call the dangerous overheating of our planet and the lack of action to stop it what it is—a crisis—and to cover it like one.’…[But the giant step is] covering the climate crisis like it is one…Even when there is an event that is obviously related to global warming, such as an extreme heat wave, media reports often fail to connect the dots…[A] genuine crisis merits an increase in both quantity and quality…” click here for more

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