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Alice Bell: Is reporting climate change different from other science journalism?
Yet the fundamental reason for reporting climate change - because it threatens major changes to our lives, and the prospects of future generations - endures.
In earlier years of reporting climate change, news media were regularly accused of attributing any unusual or extreme weather events to climate change - and often the accusations were justified.
Pielke says that the mediascape as a whole does a good job of reporting climate science, but at the same time he questions how much journalists should be expected to be gate keepers of science, particularly when a high-profile politician or scientist makes a public claim.
Several factors currently limit application of the framework, including a lack of higher-level evidence of intervention efficacy and a lack of guidelines for reporting climate change health impact projections.
For instance, nurses working in mental health scored poorly on the fear scale, suggesting that unique aspects of this context such as high nurse turnover, insufficient training and support, and low pay in this work area may be obstacles to an open, unhindered reporting climate.
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So, again, if newspapers don't report climate change properly, blame readers, not journalists.
On the one hand, it has become common practice not to report climate change denier views as a matter of course.
The Global Covenant will enable cities to collect and report climate data in a standardised, comparable way, allowing them to track their progress and hold one another accountable.
(Whether those problems affect reported climate trends is controversial).
Public sector bodies in Scotland should be compelled to report climate emissions targets and progress, a Holyrood committee has recommended.
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