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Articles tagged climate change (42)

Even if scientists haven’t confirmed that a particular hurricane, wildfire, or heat wave was made worse by climate change, they know a lot about the big-picture effects of warming on extreme weather events.
New research finds the visuals of heat-wave news coverage are more likely to put a positive spin on extreme heat than the articles themselves.
An experiment finds small changes in framing and word choice can elicit significant changes in how science skeptics engage with news coverage of climate change.
A new study of social media about a climate change conference found journalists’ negative tweets gained far more traction with users than positive ones. That’s one of the findings in this new collection of research into climate journalism.
“[Labeling] was the major intervention that Facebook said it was going to do, and it hasn’t done it.”
The biggest news story of all time doesn’t quite fit our working definition of news, and hence is going remarkably undercovered.
This subtle form of misinformation, which scholars have called “fossil fuel solutionism,” involves cherry-picking data and talking points.
Data visualization can help people grasp the challenges that lie ahead.