This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Bell, A. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                   What's this?

Media (mis)communication on the science of climate change

Freelance science journalism and media consultancy

Climate change has been widely reported as a scientific and environmental issue. In six months' news coverage of climate change in New Zealand, reporting of basic scientific facts was overwhelmingly accurate. News sources rated over 80% of stories no worse than slightly inaccurate. However, one story in six contained significant misreporting. Some stories overstated the advance of climate change or confused ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect. Scientific sources rated coverage overall worse than their own individual judgments showed it to be. Examination of ways in which stories came about leads to recommendations on how scientists and journalists can work together to better inform the public about climate change.

Public Understanding of Science, Vol. 3, No. 3, 259-275 (1994)
DOI: 10.1088/0963-6625/3/3/002


CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				S. D. Brody, S. Zahran, A. Vedlitz, and H. Grover Examining the Relationship Between Physical Vulnerability and Public Perceptions of Global Climate Change in the United States Environment and Behavior, January 1, 2008; 40(1): 72 - 95. [Abstract] [PDF]

				A. Carvalho Ideological cultures and media discourses on scientific knowledge: re-reading news on climate change Public Understanding of Science, April 1, 2007; 16(2): 223 - 243. [Abstract] [PDF]

				J. B. Corbett and J. L. Durfee Testing Public (Un)Certainty of Science: Media Representations of Global Warming Science Communication, December 1, 2004; 26(2): 129 - 151. [Abstract] [PDF]

				K. M. Wilson Forecasting the Future: How Television Weathercasters--Attitudes and Beliefs about Climate Change Affect Their Cognitive Knowledge on the Science Science Communication, December 1, 2002; 24(2): 246 - 268. [Abstract] [PDF]

				C. W. Trumbo and J. Shanahan Social research on climate change: where we have been, where we are, and where we might go Public Understanding of Science, July 1, 2000; 9(3): 199 - 204. [PDF]

				B. Dutt and K. C. Garg An overview of science and technology coverage in Indian English-language dailies Public Understanding of Science, April 1, 2000; 9(2): 123 - 140. [Abstract] [PDF]

				K. M. Wilson Drought, debate, and uncertainty: measuring reporters' knowledge and ignorance about climate change Public Understanding of Science, January 1, 2000; 9(1): 1 - 13. [Abstract] [PDF]

				S. Eden Public participation in environmental policy: considering scientific, counter-scientific and non-scientific contributions Public Understanding of Science, July 1, 1996; 5(3): 183 - 204. [Abstract] [PDF]

				C. Trumbo Constructing climate change: claims and frames in US news coverage of an environmental issue Public Understanding of Science, July 1, 1996; 5(3): 269 - 283. [Abstract] [PDF]