“Reporting on Religion & Climate Change” | ReligionLink – Insights into how religious beliefs influence views on climate change and people’s willingness to take action.
“Both-Sidesing the Climate Story” | Columbia Journalism Review: “It is maddening that, this far into the climate crisis, news outlets continue to dither as to whether a single weather event is related to the now-undeniable, violent changes in Earth’s weather.”
“How Should We Talk About What’s Happening to Our Planet?” | The Washington Post: “Whereas science has traditionally been guided by dispassionate, male-centric authority, women are rewording climate conversations to honor the collective, connective nature of the problem. And how we talk about the environment affects how we think about it.”
“It’s a Crisis, Not a Change”: The Six Guardian Language Changes on Climate Matters | The Guardian: Terms discussed include climate emergency or climate crisis vs. climate change; climate science denier or climate denier vs. climate sceptic/skeptic; global heating vs. global warming; greenhouse gas emissions vs. carbon emissions or carbon dioxide emissions; wildlife vs. biodiversity; fish populations vs. fish stocks.
“The Media Are Complacent While the World Burns” | Columbia Journalism Review: “Perhaps the media’s most damaging climate-change error has been to cover a science story as if it were a politics story.”
“Talking About Climate Change Is Depressing. It Doesn’t Have to Be.” | BuzzFeed News: “What phrases we use to describe the phenomenon (‘climate change’ versus ‘global warming’; ‘climate crisis’ or ‘climate emergency’) may not be nearly as important as how we build the narrative around them.”
“Want People to Care About Climate Change? Skip the Jargon.” | Grist: Using plain English for terms like carbon footprint, circular economy, climate adaptation, environmentaljustice, just transition, geoengineering, net-zero, offset, resilience, and sustainable.
