Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse

Broadbent, Jeffrey; Sonnett, John; Botetzagias, Iosif; Carson, Marcus; Carvalho, Anabela; Chien, Yu Ju; Edling, Christofer; Fisher, Dana R.; Giouzepas, Georgios; Haluza‐DeLay, Randolph; Hasegawa, Kôichi; Hirschi, Christian; Horta, Ana; Ikeda, K.; Jin, Jun; Ku, Dowan; Lahsen, Myanna; Lee, Ho Ching; Lin, Tze Luen Alan; Malang, Thomas; Ollmann, Jana; Payne, Diane; Pellissery, Sony; Price, Stephan; Pulver, Simone; Sainz, Jaime; Satoh, Keiichi; Saunders, Clare; Schmidt, Luísa; Stoddart, Mark C. J.; Swarnakar, Pradip; Tatsumi, Tomoyuki; Tindall, David B.; Vaughter, Philip; Wagner, Paul M.; Yun, Sun Jin; Sun, Zhili

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“…Figure 3 shows the variation in media attention as reflected in the number of climate-change mentioning articles in the newspapers per year. It reveals broad similarity in the ebbs and flows of coverage across the newspapers, with a steep drop in coverage after 2009 that characterizes news coverage world wide (Broadbent, 2016).…”

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“…Politically, Brazil's daily newspapers are broadly similar, lacking in political diversity. Folha SP is slightly less to the right, or centrist, but this does not translate into perceptible differential climate coverage (Painter & Ashe, 2012 (Broadbent, 2016).…”

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“…compon.org and Broadbent, 2016), our research integrated COMPON's standardized methodology, the first level of which analyzes climate coverage in three major national print newspapers. COMPON teams chose to focus centrally on climate change coverage during the years 2007-2008 in three major daily print newspapers in each nation studied, ideally choosing newspapers of varied political orientations.…”

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“…In the study of Estado SP, consumption references in 20 percent of all the climate-mentioning articles from 2007 and 2008 were analyzed, on the standard methodological premise (Broadbent et al, 2016) that 20 percent of a large sample of newspaper articles is representative of the whole. This served as a snap shot of general tendencies.…”

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Buffers Against Inconvenient Knowledge: Brazilian Newspaper Representations of the Climate-Meat Link

Lahsen¹

2017

Desenvolv. Meio Ambiente

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Analyzing Brazilian newspapers' climate coverage leading up to 2010, this article shows that climate change was framed as an energy problem although energy is a small part of the country's emissions compared to emissions from land use change and agriculture. Linked to well over half of national emissions, meat production is the single largest cause of national emissions. Yet discussions of meat as a problem in the context of climate change were marginal, at best. During the years 2007-2008, only 0.14% of climate change-mentioning articles -0.02% of the total word count of climate change-mentioning articles -were dedicated to meat as a problem in the context of climate change. Counting also passages in articles not dedicated to the topic, the word count only rose to 0.13% of the total word flow of the articles. To the extent that the topic of meat as a problem appeared, it was underdeveloped and approached in ways that reduced attention, concern, and agency on the part of Brazilians to steer the country towards a new, more sustainable development path. This paper presents these findings and offers a preliminary political economic explanation for its existence.Keywords: media coverage; climate change; energy; meat; solutions. RESUMO:Analisando a cobertura sobre o clima nos jornais brasileiros nos anos 2002 até 2010, este artigo mostra que a mudança climática foi enquadrada como um problema de energia, apesar de ela ser uma pequena parte das emissões do país em comparação com as emissões de mudança no uso da terra e da agricultura. Enquanto a produção de carne é a maior causa das emissões nacionais, discussões sobre a carne como um problema no contexto das alterações climáticas foram marginais, na melhor das hipóteses. Na medida em que apareceu, o tema da carne era subdesenvolvido e abordado de tal forma que reduziu a atenção, a preocupação e o poder dos brasileiros para guiar o país para um novo caminho de desenvolvimento nacional mais sustentável. O artigo apresenta esses resultados e oferece uma explicação econômica e política preliminar.

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Lahsen¹

2017

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“…Whereas a significant number of studies have examined media representations of scientific knowledge in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and elsewhere, and have shown a significant emphasis on controversy (with a disproportionate weight given to skeptical views) (Antilla, 2005;Boykoff, 2007;Broadbent et al, 2016), studies in Germany (Peters & Heinrichs, 2008), Greece, Brazil (Broadbent et al, 2016), and other countries suggest that science tends to be represented as consensual. Painter (2011) found profound international differences in the presence of skepticism in the media, with France, India, China, and Brazil only seldom reporting on climate change skeptics.…”

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Climate Change Communication in Portugal

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Carvalho²

2017

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science

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In Portugal, global politics tend to dominate climate change communication. Policy-oriented news stories prevail, being very much influenced by international events, dynamics, and actors, especially European ones, whereas national politicians and officials tend to be given less space. Climate change is thus mainly (re)presented as a global issue, distant from local realities, in spite of the vulnerabilities that the country faces. National policy makers tend to adopt a technocratic discourse that comes across as “rational” and fairly optimistic, with little contestation by environmental groups or others. A “green economy” discourse has prevailed in the media, with investment on renewable energy being depicted as the way to both stimulating the economy and addressing climate change. Scientific knowledge tends to be represented as consensual and national scientists tend to avoid dramatization. Although public opinion surveys have shown that the population considers climate change a serious problem and skepticism regarding its anthropogenic causes is low, surveys have also revealed high levels of ignorance and self-evaluated lack of information. In spite of a traditionally weak environmental movement and lack of public engagement, the population has shown a consistent sense of collective responsibility to tackle climate change. The economic and financial crisis up until the mid-2010s considerably affected the already fragile media system and turned political and public attention to economy-related topics. News coverage of climate change, in all its complexity, has been constrained by a lack of specialized reporters and increased dependency on the pro-activity of news sources.

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“Zweckoptimismus” and the Paris process will not save the world from climate catastrophe

Clémençon

2018

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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Politicians, government officials, business representatives, and nongovernmental climate activists all in various ways emphasize what they see as progress being made in the aftermath of the Paris Agreement, even if they continue to warn of the dire consequences of business as usual. Indeed, there is no lack of encouraging private and public sector initiatives on climate change. Some macro trends seem to be moving in the right direction, as well. But, closer scrutiny shows that these positive trends are still far from adding up to the necessary fundamental shift in the global energy economy. Furthermore, the public may greatly overestimate the advancement of renewable solar and wind energy technology, which contributes to a false sense of progress and lessens political urgency. Without determined and reinvigorated political leadership from the European Union (EU), there is little hope that necessary emission reduction goals to stay below 2 °C above preindustrial levels can be met. The EU has driven international climate policy from the beginning of climate negotiations, and there is unfortunately no other source of leadership in sight. It will require difficult political decisions to be taken sooner rather than later to force a much quicker domestic energy transition and to raise financing to help developing countries with their own energy transition and adaptation to a rapidly warming world. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2018;14:198-201. © 2018 SETAC.

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Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse

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