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MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA
How Broadcast Networks Covered Climate Change In 2015
An Analysis Of Nightly News And Sunday Shows
Media Matters for America
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Key Findings:
2015 was a year marked by more landmark actions to address climate change than ever before, yet the combined climate coverage on the top broadcast networks was down by 5% from 2014.
In addition to overall coverage declining, the networks rarely addressed how climate change impacts national security, the economy, and public health
They also largely ignored the Clean Power Plan, America's most significant climate policy, as well as the climate implications of the Keystone XL pipeline, the New York
Attorney General’s investigation of ExxonMobil, and the EPA's methane reduction plan
And the networks continued to give climate denial a platform: the top Sunday shows aired more segments with climate science denial than they did in 2014, while featuring far fewer scientists EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox collectively spent five percent less time covering climate change in 2015, even though there were more newsworthy climate-related events than ever before, including the EPA finalizing the Clean Power Plan, Pope Francis issuing a climate change encyclical, President Obama rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline, and 195 countries around the world reaching a historic climate agreement in Paris. The decline was primarily driven by ABC, whose climate coverage dropped by 59 percent; the only network to dramatically increase its climate coverage was Fox, but that increase largely consisted of criticism of efforts to address climate change. When the networks did discuss climate change, they rarely addressed its impacts on national security, the economy, or public health, yet most still found time to provide a forum for climate science denial. On a more positive note, CBS and NBC -- and PBS, which was assessed separately -- aired many segments that explored the state of scientific research or detailed how climate change is affecting extreme weather, plants, and wildlife.
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Total Climate Coverage On Broadcast Networks Decreased In 2015 Combined Climate Coverage On ABC, CBS, NBC, And Fox Decreased Five Percent From 2014 To 2015, Despite Landmark Actions To Address Global Warming.
In 2015, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox collectively aired approximately 146 minutes of climate change coverage on their evening and Sunday news shows, which was eight minutes less than the networks aired in 2014. This five percent drop in coverage occurred even though 2015 was a year full of significant actions to address climate change, including the EPA finalizing the Clean Power Plan, the first-ever federal limits on carbon pollution from power plants; President Obama rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, citing the need to fight climate change; Pope Francis releasing the first-ever papal encyclical on climate change; and leaders from 195 countries agreeing to a landmark accord to lower greenhouse gas emissions at the United Nations climate summit in Paris.
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