Abstract
Abstract
Although climate change is arguably the most urgent issue of our time, the general public knows little about climate science. Here, we investigate how often five basic climate facts are conveyed in The New York Times news articles covering climate change from 1980 to 2018. With only one exception, the frequencies with which these facts appear in news articles today are vanishingly small. This suggests that print journalism is a largely untapped resource for educating the public on basic climate facts.
Funder
National Science Foundation
Subject
Atmospheric Science,Earth-Surface Processes,Geology,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous),General Environmental Science,Food Science
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