The Solutions Project offers solutions to Global Warming. Their partner Conspire for Good is a strategy and PR company. I have been asked about real conspiracies on Quora, and replied about my part in the global Conspiracy for Good, as you can see me doing here and elsewhere on the Web. So these are my kind of people.
Now, what about that partnership? The point is to analyze how the MSM have been doing on Global Warming reporting. There is a lot of good happening, with vast gaps in coverage and attitude.
This is where we were last year in the report for the year before.
The Solutions Project 2018 Renewable Energy Narrative Analysis
- Analysis of more than 2,300 news and opinion articles from 2018 related to renewable energy—sourced from Google News and Feedly. Articles came from national and state outlets, as well as online and trade publications.
- Purpose of the research was to understand how the media covers renewable energy, in particular to determine if funding gaps in climate philanthropy are also leading to a gap in media coverage of local leaders and innovations. To what extent would articles quote women as spokespeople, reference issues of equity, or talk about communities of color?
- Study found that 65% of the articles sampled were solutions focused or positive about renewable energy.
- Only 21% of the articles quoted a woman as a spokesperson.
- Communities of color, despite being disproportionately impacted by climate change and fossil fuels, were referenced in only 7% of articles.
- 10% of the articles referenced issues related to equity and justice.
- Local leaders and their organizations are having outsized impact in the renewable energy space, especially relative to the funding they receive.
- Developed by The Solutions Project, a philanthropic organization, and Conspire for Good, a strategy and communications firm.
This Year's Report about Last Year
In a year that saw ballooning awareness of renewable energy and
adoption of renewable energy policies into mainstream political
rhetoric, the positive narrative dominated. We attribute this
primarily to an overwhelming amount of coverage related to the
Democratic primary and Green New Deal.
TOTAL ARTICLES REVIEWED |
2,304
(653 opinion + editorials) |
QUOTE A WOMAN AS A SPOKESPERSON OR LAWMAKER |
977 articles |
REFER TO EQUITY AND JUSTICE |
154 articles |
REFERENCE COMMUNITIES OF COLOR |
38 articles |
ARTICLES ABOUT ENERGY OF ALL TYPES |
31,419 |
ARTICLES ABOUT RENEWABLE ENERGY |
7,093 |
7,093! No wonder I can't keep up.
So anyway, 22.6% of articles about energy last year included renewable energy.
I can't do justice to the report here. It is solid with actionable information that can inform the media strategies of scientific organizations, politicians, activists and you and me. Here is an organization out to do just that.
Covering Climate Now
Covering Climate Now is a global journalism initiative committed to more and better coverage of the defining story of our time.
Our partners include over 400 news outlets with a combined audience approaching 2 billion people — and growing.
Other Coverage
Scholarly articles for climate media coverage
US newspaper and television media constitute key influences among a set of complex dynamics shaping information dissemination in this politicized environment. Mass-media coverage of climate change is not simply a random amalgam of newspaper articles and television segments; rather, it is a social relationship between scientists, policy actors and the public that is mediated by such news packages. This paper demonstrates that consistent adherence to interacting journalistic norms has contributed to impediments in the coverage of anthropogenic climate change science. Through analysis of US newspaper and television coverage of human contributions to climate change from 1988 through 2004, this paper finds that adherence to first-order journalistic norms – personalization, dramatization, and novelty – significantly influence the employment of second-order norms – authority-order and balance – and that this has led to informationally deficient massmedia coverage of this crucial issue.
United Nations Development Programme ~Human Development Report 2007
This paper looks at how media coverage has shaped discourse and action – in complex, dynamic and non-linearways – at the interface of climate science and policy. Moreover, this work explores influences of media on practices,politics and public opinion and understanding related to climate change. Research on these interactions are delineatedthrough work that has been undertaken in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Honduras, Mozambique, Jamaica, Sri Lanka and Zambia, and explorations of newspaper coverage in forty English-language newspapers in seventeen countries, across five continents. Through these examinations of media coverage of climate change, links are made to related work on public perception and the relationship to internationalassistance.
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We analyse Japanese newspaper coverage of global warming from January 1998 to July 2007 and how public opinion during parts of that period were influenced by newspaper coverage. We show that a dramatic increase in newspaper coverage of global warming from January 2007 correlated with an increase in public concern for the issue. Before January 2007, we find that coverage of global warming had an immediate but short-term influence on public concern. With such transitory high levels of media coverage we suggest that for more effective communication of climate change, strategies aimed at maintaining mass-media coverage of global warming are required.
Media coverage of global warming - Wikipedia
Media coverage of global warming has had effects on public opinion on climate change, as it mediates the scientific opinion on climate change that the global instrumental temperature record shows increase in recent decades and that the trend is caused mainly by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.
A Review of Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming in 2018
At the global level, October was the high water mark for coverage of climate change or global warming among the sources tracked by our Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) team. This trend of highest levels of coverage in October was also the case at the national level in Australia, Canada, Spain, the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018. This coverage was attributed primarily to attention paid to the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on impacts of 1.5oC warming. It was also bolstered by media coverage of continued impacts and reverberations from Hurricane Michael (coming on land in the US Florida panhandle) and Typhoon Yutu (tearing through the US Northern Marianas Islands) in October along with continued cleanup efforts from September’s Typhoon Mangkhut (damaging the Philippines) and Hurricane Florence (making landfall in the Carolinas).
In media coverage of climate change, where are the facts?
Sep 19, 2019 -The New York Times makes a concerted effort to drive home the point that climate change is real, but it does a poor job of presenting the basic facts about climate change that could convince skeptics, according to a review of the paper’s coverage since 1980.
Public polls show that Americans, whether agreeing or disagreeing with the idea that human activity is changing Earth’s climate, lack an understanding of the basic facts leading to this conclusion, says climate scientist David Romps, a University of California, Berkeley, professor of earth and planetary science. A large percentage of the public doesn’t know that global warming is happening now, that it’s caused by record levels of CO2 from fossil fuel burning, that 99% of climate scientists agree on this and that the changes are effectively permanent.
“If the New York Times isn’t doing it, my guess is that it is just not happening across print journalism,” Romps said. “One of the hopes is that, by at least pointing this out, it might occur to people to take a look at what kind of context is provided in news coverage of climate change.”
Study examines how media around the world frame climate change coverage
Aug 13, 2019 - LAWRENCE — Climate change is a problem facing countries around the world, but media coverage of the topic differs from one nation to the next. A new study from the University of Kansas shows the way media frame climate change coverage can be predicted by several national factors, yet none tend to frame it as an immediate problem requiring national policies to address the issue.
While richer countries tend to frame climate change coverage as a political issue, poorer countries more often frame it as an international issue that the world at large needs to address.
“Media can tell people what to think about. At the same time, framing can have an effect on how people think about certain issues,” said Hong Vu, assistant professor of journalism at KU and the study’s lead author. “Not only can framing have an impact on how an issue is perceived but on whether and how policy is made on the issue. With big data, machine-learning techniques, we were able to analyze a large amount of media climate change coverage from 45 countries and territories from 2011 to 2015.”