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{{See also|Climate change in Australia}}[[Australian media|Australian news outlets]] have been reported to present misleading claims and information.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-01-14|title=The Australian says it accepts climate science, so why does it give a platform to 'outright falsehoods'?|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/15/the-australian-says-it-accepts-climate-science-so-why-does-it-give-a-platform-to-outright-falsehoods|access-date=2021-04-22|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=2021-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306231013/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/15/the-australian-says-it-accepts-climate-science-so-why-does-it-give-a-platform-to-outright-falsehoods|url-status=live}}</ref> One article from ''[[The Australian]]'' in 2009 claimed that climate change and global warming were fraudulent claims pushed by so-called "warmaholics".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2009-01-16|title=The warmaholics' fantasy |newspaper=The Australian|url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24876451-7583,00.html|access-date=2021-04-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116082215/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24876451-7583,00.html|archive-date=2009-01-16}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=March 2023}} Many other examples of claims that dismiss climate change have been posted by media outlets in Australia throughout the years following as well.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bacon|first=Wendy|date=2013-10-30|title=Sceptical climate part 2: climate science in Australian newspapers|url=https://apo.org.au/node/36169|language=en|website=Analysis & Policy Observatory |access-date=2021-04-27|archive-date=2021-04-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422014621/https://apo.org.au/node/36169|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Australian Brings You The Climate Science Denial News From Five Years Ago – Graham Readfearn|date=10 May 2013 |url=https://www.readfearn.com/2013/05/the-australian-brings-you-the-climate-science-denial-news-from-five-years-ago/|access-date=2021-04-22|language=en-AU|archive-date=2021-11-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119205910/https://www.readfearn.com/2013/05/the-australian-brings-you-the-climate-science-denial-news-from-five-years-ago/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Chapman|first=Simon|title=The Australian's campaign against wind farms continues but the research doesn't stack up|url=http://theconversation.com/the-australians-campaign-against-wind-farms-continues-but-the-research-doesnt-stack-up-44774|access-date=2021-04-22|website=The Conversation|date=16 July 2015 |language=en|archive-date=2021-04-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424150138/https://theconversation.com/the-australians-campaign-against-wind-farms-continues-but-the-research-doesnt-stack-up-44774|url-status=live}}</ref> The 2013 summer and heat wave colloquially known as "[[Angry Summer]]" attracted a great deal of media attention, although few outlets directly linked the unprecedented heat to climate change.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Aldred |first=Jessica |date=2013-03-07 |title=Australia links 'angry summer' to climate change – at last |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2013/mar/07/australia-angry-summer-climate-change |access-date=2023-03-13 }}</ref> As the world entered into 2020, global media coverage of climate change issues decreased and [[Media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic|COVID-19 coverage]] increased. In Australia there was a 34% decrease in climate change articles published from March 2020.<ref name="Nacu-Schmidt">{{
Australia has recently experienced some of the most intense [[Bushfires in Australia|bushfire seasons]] in its immediate history. This phenomenon has sparked extensive media coverage both nationally and internationally. Much of the media coverage of the [[2019–20 Australian bushfire season|2019 and 2020 Australian bushfire seasons]] discussed the different factors that lead to and increase the chances of extreme fire seasons.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-07 |title=Media reaction: Australia's bushfires and climate change |url=https://www.carbonbrief.org/media-reaction-australias-bushfires-and-climate-change |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929204905/https://www.carbonbrief.org/media-reaction-australias-bushfires-and-climate-change |archive-date=2020-09-29 |access-date=2021-04-22 |website=Carbon Brief |language=en}}</ref> A climate scientist, [[Nerilie Abram]], at [[Australian National University]] explained in an article for ''[[Scientific American]]'', that the four major conditions need to exist for wildfire and those include "available fuel, dryness of that fuel, weather conditions that aid the rapid spread of fire and an ignition.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abram |first=Nerilie |title=Australia's Angry Summer: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like |url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/australias-angry-summer-this-is-what-climate-change-looks-like/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505014148/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/australias-angry-summer-this-is-what-climate-change-looks-like/ |archive-date=2021-05-05 |access-date=2021-04-22 |website=Scientific American Blog Network |language=en}}</ref>
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