{"id":687344,"date":"2017-09-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=687344"},"modified":"2017-09-12T07:49:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T05:49:40","slug":"climate-change-is-getting-worse-and-so-is-medias-coverage-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/de\/2017\/09\/climate-change-is-getting-worse-and-so-is-medias-coverage-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change is getting worse, and so is media\u2019s coverage of it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media are failing to inform audiences about pressing impacts on human migration patterns, women, and the economy<\/b>
\nBroadcast networks are decreasing their climate coverage at a time when the case for reporting on the issue is become more and more compelling. By ignoring this serious matter, media are failing to inform audiences about pressing impacts on human migration patterns, women, and the economy. In 2016, media had no shortage of compelling reasons to cover climate change \u2014 from the revelation that it was the third consecutive to the United States\u2019 election of a to its highest office. Yet broadcast news outlets\u2019 coverage of climate change dropped a whopping from 2015 to 2016, making it the third consecutive year of declining coverage. When media turn a blind eye to climate change, they ignore an issue that will have and across the globe. According to, unmitigated climate change could displace between 50 million and 200 million people by 2050. But the effects of climate change are. In the U. S. last year, the federal government $48 million in grants to resettle residents of Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana, which represents \u201cthe first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the impacts of climate change.\u201d Climate change poses a particular threat to women. A have concluded that women will bear the brunt of climate change-induced natural disasters and severe weather events. According to a United Nations, \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than men \u2014 primarily as they constitute the majority of the world\u2019s poor and are more dependent for their livelihood on natural resources that are threatened by climate change.\u201d The analysis also stated, \u201cWhen coupled with unequal access to resources and to decision-making processes, limited mobility places women in rural areas in a position where they are disproportionately affected by climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n

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