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Abstract

• August media attention to climate change and global warming was up 17% throughout the world from the previous month of July 2018, and up about 42% from August last year. An increase was most pronounced in Oceania (up 55%), where Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was replaced by Scott Morrison. Turnbull’s downfall was widely attributed by media reports to internal party rejection of his stance on climate change emissions reductions. In addition, North American coverage was up 27% in August, due primarily to media attention paid to the mid-month proposal by the US Trump Administration to replace the Clean Power Plan with what was dubbed the ‘Affordable Clean Energy rule’. Elsewhere, moderate increases were also detected in Central/South America (up 18%), Africa (up 10%) and Europe (up 8%), while going down only in Asia (down 7%) this month compared to the previous month of July.

Creator

• Katzung, Jennifer
• Nacu-Schmidt, Ami
• Boykoff, Maxwell

Date Issued

• 2018-09-01

Academic Affiliation

• Center for Science & Technology Policy Research

Journal Issue/Number

• 20

Last Modified

• 2019-12-09

Resource Type

• Article

Rights Statement

• In Copyright

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.25810/70zy-9358

Language

• English [eng]

License

• Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International

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• Media and Climate Change Observatory Monthly Summaries

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