It’s true: The majority of people only read the headline, not the story. Which is why media should be discerning with how it frames climate stories.
for climate change: one in which the planet warmed by as much as 5 degrees Celsius by 2100 — causing widespread extreme weather, economic collapse, famine and war.
“Now, David sees that level of doom as much less likely, he writes in an essay for this Sunday’s climate issue of, where he is a columnist. While 5 degrees of warming once seemed possible, scientists now estimate that the Earth is on track to warm by 2 to 3 degrees. That difference might not seem huge, but it translates to fewer record-breaking floods, storms, droughts and heat waves and potentially thousands or millions of lives saved in the coming decades.
At the same time, the news this week has been flooded with doomsday-ish reports about how we are just about past the point in which it will be possible to stop the devastating effects of climate change.
“Collective action is needed by the world’s nations more now than at any point since the second world war to avoid climate tipping points, Prof. Johan Rockström said, but geopolitical tensions are at a high.”goes on to be more evenhanded that it appears in the headline, saying that “with the most terrifying predictions made improbable by decarbonization and the most hopeful ones practically foreclosed by tragic delay.
As journalists, we work hard to put some positivity in our bleak stories — what can be done, how to fix something, who is doing what to make the world better. In this case, however, I fear that damage may have been done. Politicians tout headlines to make their points, and climate deniers, I would imagine, would be perfectly happy to forward thatWhich is the last thing the suffering world needs right now.
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