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DOI	10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0225.1
	Reporting on climate change by broadcast meteorologists: A national assessment
	Timm K.M.F.; Perkins D.; Myers T.; Placky B.W.; Maibach E.W.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	00030007
起始页码	E129
结束页码	E140
卷号	101 期号:2
英文摘要	Television weathercasters are uniquely situated to inform their audiences about the local impacts of global climate change and a growing number of them are adopting the role of climate change educator. We surveyed all American broadcast meteorology professionals in 2015 (N = 2,059; response rate = 22.6%), 2016 (N = 2017; response rate = 31.2%), and 2017 (N = 2,177; response rate = 22.1%) to assess weathercasters’ interest in reporting about climate change; if, where, and how they report about climate change; and the reactions they get from their audiences when they do. Many participating weathercasters indicated that they were moderately or very interested in reporting about climate change, especially using local historical climate information (56%). Just over half of the weathercasters (57.9%) had used one or more communication mode to inform their viewers, or other people in their community, about the local impacts of climate change in the prior year. The most commonly used modes were social media (42.7%), school visits (36.3%), community events (33.1%), and on-air broadcasts (31.3%). Most weathercasters who had reported about climate change on air indicated they received either positive viewer feedback or little feedback (61.9%); conversely, weathercasters who had not reported about climate change expected to receive mostly negative feedback (44.2%). In sum, this analysis suggests that large numbers of weathercasters have adopted the role of climate change educator in their communities; they use a range of communication modes to share climate change information with their audiences and receive mostly positive feedback from their audiences when they do. © 2020 American Meteorological Society For information regarding reuse of this content and general copyright information, consult the AMS Copyright Policy.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Surveys; Broadcast meteorology; Climate information; Communication mode; Global climate changes; Local impacts; National assessment; On-air broadcasts; Response rate; Climate change
来源期刊	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/177985
作者单位	Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States; Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, United States; Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Timm K.M.F.,Perkins D.,Myers T.,et al. Reporting on climate change by broadcast meteorologists: A national assessment[J],2020,101(2).
APA	Timm K.M.F.,Perkins D.,Myers T.,Placky B.W.,&Maibach E.W..(2020).Reporting on climate change by broadcast meteorologists: A national assessment.Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society,101(2).
MLA	Timm K.M.F.,et al."Reporting on climate change by broadcast meteorologists: A national assessment".Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101.2(2020).