Global S&T Development Trend Analysis Platform of Resources and Environment
DOI | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102119 |
Blaming climate change? How Indian mainstream media covered two extreme weather events in 2015 | |
James Painter, Shannon Osaka, Joshua Ettinger, Peter Walton | |
2020-07-06 | |
发表期刊 | Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions
![]() |
出版年 | 2020 |
英文摘要 | Reporting the links (or lack of them) between human-induced climate change and individual extreme weather events poses a series of challenges for journalists. In recent years, their task has become more complicated by the increase in the number of extreme event attribution (EEA) studies which assess how climate change is affecting the intensity or likelihood of specific weather events. Such studies are complex, contain uncertainties, and can be difficult to explain to a lay audience. Previous scholarship has largely focused on media coverage of extreme events in developed countries, and on the volume of coverage of the links to climate change, without examining references to EEA studies. To help fill this gap, we take India as our case study, and the mainstream media coverage there of the Chennai rainfall event and the heat wave in Andhra Pradesh in 2015. Both events were subject to attribution studies. Amongst our findings are that journalists most commonly used generic phrases to describe the link between such events and climate change; politicians and NGOs often ‘blamed’ climate change without reference to the science; and relevant EEA studies were seldom quoted. Based on our findings, we make some preliminary recommendations for training journalists in India and elsewhere to support accurate reporting of extreme events and their possible linkages to climate change. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
URL | 查看原文 |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/282684 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | James Painter, Shannon Osaka, Joshua Ettinger, Peter Walton. Blaming climate change? How Indian mainstream media covered two extreme weather events in 2015[J]. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions,2020. |
APA | James Painter, Shannon Osaka, Joshua Ettinger, Peter Walton.(2020).Blaming climate change? How Indian mainstream media covered two extreme weather events in 2015.Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions. |
MLA | James Painter, Shannon Osaka, Joshua Ettinger, Peter Walton."Blaming climate change? How Indian mainstream media covered two extreme weather events in 2015".Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions (2020). |
条目包含的文件 | 条目无相关文件。 |
除非特别说明,本系统中所有内容都受版权保护,并保留所有权利。
修改评论