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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102119
	Blaming climate change? How Indian mainstream media covered two extreme weather events in 2015
	Painter J.; Osaka S.; Ettinger J.; Walton P.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	63
英文摘要	Reporting the links (or lack of them) between human-induced climate change and individual extreme weather events poses a series of challenges for journalists. In recent years, their task has become more complicated by the increase in the number of extreme event attribution (EEA) studies which assess how climate change is affecting the intensity or likelihood of specific weather events. Such studies are complex, contain uncertainties, and can be difficult to explain to a lay audience. Previous scholarship has largely focused on media coverage of extreme events in developed countries, and on the volume of coverage of the links to climate change, without examining references to EEA studies. To help fill this gap, we take India as our case study, and the mainstream media coverage there of the Chennai rainfall event and the heat wave in Andhra Pradesh in 2015. Both events were subject to attribution studies. Amongst our findings are that journalists most commonly used generic phrases to describe the link between such events and climate change; politicians and NGOs often ‘blamed’ climate change without reference to the science; and relevant EEA studies were seldom quoted. Based on our findings, we make some preliminary recommendations for training journalists in India and elsewhere to support accurate reporting of extreme events and their possible linkages to climate change. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	climate change extreme event human activity maximum likelihood analysis weather Andhra Pradesh Chennai India Tamil Nadu
语种	英语
来源机构	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/133265
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Painter J.,Osaka S.,Ettinger J.,et al. Blaming climate change? How Indian mainstream media covered two extreme weather events in 2015[J]. Global Environmental Change,2020,63.
APA	Painter J.,Osaka S.,Ettinger J.,&Walton P..(2020).Blaming climate change? How Indian mainstream media covered two extreme weather events in 2015.,63.
MLA	Painter J.,et al."Blaming climate change? How Indian mainstream media covered two extreme weather events in 2015".63(2020).