Media and Climate Change Observatory Monthly Summary: Rapid intensification events are more likely because of climate change - Issue 44, August 2020

Citeable URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/articles/cj82k833q

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August 2020 saw media coverage of climate change or global warming increase slightly from the previous month, up 3% across 120 sources in 54 countries in newspaper, radio and television accounts. However, coverage was 45% lower than August 2019 continuing a downward trend in media portrayals of climate change that the Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) has documented beginning February 2020 when the global COVID-19 pandemic began to dominate public attention. Figure 1 shows trends in newspaper media coverage at the global scale – organized into seven geographical regions around the world – from January 2004 through August 2020.

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