Climate change and the media

One of the things that has surprised me on Twitter is some people saying the media needs to do better on the climate crisis. I suspect that must be from people who read the "conservative" (right wing) papers, or watch TV as their main source of news. I just did a brief search at my two favourites news sites (The Conversation and The Guardian Australia), and found the following - and there is more, much more, going back for years.

Media reporting is not the problem; people ignoring what is being pointed out to them is - and maybe using poor (expletive deleted - no adult only filter on this blog) media sources.

In fact, I would suggest all people think carefully what they click on or buy or listen to or watch: if you are outraged by something, your engagement with that site, or your money, just encourages them to keep doing more - your outrage, no matter how widely spread or loudly proclaimed, is simply ignored, and actually counts in their favour in their accounting books.

The Conversation:

• The five corrupt pillars of climate change denial - 29th November, 2019 ; 
• People around the world will act on climate change to create a better society: study - 29th September, 2015; 
• What does ‘belief’ in climate change really mean? - 10th August, 2012; and 
• (yes, I know this is from The Guardian) Eric Abetz compares The Conversation to Nazis over stance on climate change denial - 19th September, 2019.

The Guardian Australia:

• Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment (to use the term "climate crisis") - 17thMay, 2019 and The media is failing on climate change – here's how they can do better ahead of 2020 - 30th April, 2019 (which was part of a joint project aimed at improving reporting GENERALLY on this issue); 
• Climate change costings that don't count the cost of inaction are worthless - 5th May, 2019; 
• It’s not just Greta Thunberg: why are we ignoring the developing world’s inspiring activists? - 5th October, 2019; 
• Climate change denial is evil, says Mary Robinson - 26th March, 2019, Has the politics of climate change finally reached a tipping point? - 15th May, 2019, and Scotland faces climate 'apocalypse' without action to cut emissions - 31st May, 2019; 
• Planting trees can help save the planet – but only if governments put people first - 9th July, 2019, Re-greening: can Louisville plant its way out of a heat emergency? - 21st November, 2019, and A eureka moment for the planet: we’re finally planting trees again - 13th February, 2018; 
• Climate change made extreme heat before 2018 Queensland bushfires 'four times more likely'  - 13th November, 2019;
• Climate change making storms like Idai more severe, say experts - 20th March, 2019; 
• Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions - 9th October, 2019, G20 countries triple coal power subsidies despite climate crisis - 25th June, 2019, and ExxonMobil faces EU parliament ban after no show at climate hearing - 22nd March, 2019;
  and 
• almost anything by George  Monbiot, who has been writing for The Guardian for many years (decades, I think).