Media and Global Climate Knowledge Journalism and the IPCC
This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change
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Knowledge Journalism and the IPCC
Edited by Risto Kunelius Elisabeth Eide Matthew Tegelberg Dmitry Yagodin
Media and Global Climate Knowledge
Risto Kunelius • Elisabeth Eide • Matthew Tegelberg • Dmitry Yagodin Editors
Media and Global Climate Knowledge Journalism and the IPCC
Editors Risto Kunelius Department of Social Sciences University of Tampere Tampere, Finland Matthew Tegelberg York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Elisabeth Eide Journalism and Media Studies Olso & Åkerhus University College Oslo, Norway Dmitry Yagodin School of Communication, Media and Theatre University of Tampere Tampere, Finland
ISBN 978-1-137-52320-4 ISBN 978-1-137-52321-1 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-52321-1
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FOREWORD
This book would not have been possible without an enduring network collaboration between researchers in more than 20 countries. The MediaClimate network started its work after the UNFCCC Bali summit in 2007 (COP 13), with the firm conviction that climate change is one of the major global challenges of our time. We believe that journalism, in all its variety of forms and outlets, plays an important role in informing and engaging citizens faced with this challenge. Journalism is also crucial in building the public pressure to help decision-makers shape urgently needed policies. This is much more than a normal challenge of spreading and popularizing complex scientific knowledge. As we argue in this book, climate change digs deep into many, if not all, areas of social and political life. Thus, jour
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