DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102119
论文题名: Blaming climate change? How Indian mainstream media covered two extreme weather events in 2015
作者: Painter J. ; Osaka S. ; Ettinger J. ; Walton P.
刊名: Global Environmental Change
ISSN: 9593780
出版年: 2020
卷: 63 语种: 英语
中文关键词: Climate change
; Extreme event attribution
; Extreme weather
; Indian media
; Journalism
英文关键词: climate change
; extreme event
; human activity
; maximum likelihood analysis
; weather
; Andhra Pradesh
; Chennai
; India
; Tamil Nadu
英文摘要: Reporting the links (or lack of them) between human-induced climate change and individual extreme weather events poses a series of challenges for journalists. In recent years, their task has become more complicated by the increase in the number of extreme event attribution (EEA) studies which assess how climate change is affecting the intensity or likelihood of specific weather events. Such studies are complex, contain uncertainties, and can be difficult to explain to a lay audience. Previous scholarship has largely focused on media coverage of extreme events in developed countries, and on the volume of coverage of the links to climate change, without examining references to EEA studies. To help fill this gap, we take India as our case study, and the mainstream media coverage there of the Chennai rainfall event and the heat wave in Andhra Pradesh in 2015. Both events were subject to attribution studies. Amongst our findings are that journalists most commonly used generic phrases to describe the link between such events and climate change; politicians and NGOs often ‘blamed’ climate change without reference to the science; and relevant EEA studies were seldom quoted. Based on our findings, we make some preliminary recommendations for training journalists in India and elsewhere to support accurate reporting of extreme events and their possible linkages to climate change. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/168219
Appears in Collections: 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford', United Kingdom; School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford', United Kingdom; Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford', United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Painter J.,Osaka S.,Ettinger J.,et al. Blaming climate change? How Indian mainstream media covered two extreme weather events in 2015[J]. Global Environmental Change,2020-01-01,63