UK media and climate change: From denial to acceptance and now action
The years 2020 and 2021 were always going to be big years for climate change coverage in the UK media according to Christian Broughton, managing director of The Independent. Broughton claimed there have been three phases of climate journalism in the British media: the first with a focus on whether to believe what the scientists were saying and the second about the “nitty gritty” of data and the difference between the impacts of global warming by 1.5 degrees versus 2 degrees. The current phase we have entered, Broughton claimed, is seeing news organisations begin to ask “what are we all ...