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After this programme. hello. heat pumps, decarbonisation, the paris agreement, net zero. with less than two weeks to go until cop26, we�*re being deluged with detail and jargon. but how much do you actually understand about climate change? do you even know what cop actually stands for? it�*s conference of the parties, if you don�*t. today, we�*re asking what role the media has in educating us about climate change. maybe you feel hectored, rather than informed. or maybe you think the media isn�*t going far enough. if we now face an existential crisis, should journalists dispense with ...

Journalism — and i think that's a really good thing. so we have made progress. ok, so it's normalised certainly from the people running these organisations — tom, what about the audience appetite for stories, the audience appetite? how are they feeling about reading all this stuff? well, i don't know. there's certainly a... without using numbers to check, i feel my instinct is there is a strong appetite for all angles on it — as in, there's still a big niche for people who want to write the contrarian stuff, saying, you know, you'll get huge audiences if you write stuff saying it's not a...

I see quite a lot of scientific dissent — as there should be. doubt is a core feature of science, and some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs consist of overthrowing earlier certainties of other scientists. so i agree, and many scientists say to me that they really struggle with journalists wanting to get definitive answers from them. going back to the elephant in the room, at least in many newsrooms, the activism question — my personal view is that journalists should not resort to activism, and there's no need for it. but we need to give the topic the visibility it deserves in the p...