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[[File:False balance in climate science.png|thumb|upright=1.3|Scientific consensus on climate change (left) versus attitudes of Fox News guests in 2013 (right)<ref>{{cite news |title=Fox News defends global warming false balance by denying the 97% consensus |author=Dana Nuccitelli |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/oct/23/climate-change-climate-change-scepticism |access-date=12 September 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=23 October 2013 |language=en}}</ref>]]
The most watched [[United States cable news|news network]] in the United States, [[Fox News]], most of the time promotes climate misinformation and employs tactics that distract from the urgency of global climate change, according to a 2019 study by [[Public Citizen]]. According to the study, 86% of Fox News segments that discussed the topic were "dismissive of the climate crisis, cast its consequences in doubt or employed fear mongering when discussing climate solutions". These segments presented global climate change as a political construct, rarely, if ever, discussing the threat posed by climate change or the vast body of scientific evidence for its existence. Consistent with such politicized framing, three messages were most commonly advanced in these segments: global climate change is part of a "big government" agenda of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] (34% of segments); an effective response to the climate crisis would destroy the economy and hurtle us back to the Stone Age (26% of segments); and, concern about the climate crisis is "alarmists", "hysterical", the shrill voice of a "doomsday climate cult", or the like (12% of segments). Such segments often featured "experts" who are not climate scientists at all or are personally connected to vested interests, such as the [[energy industry]] and its network of [[Lobbying|lobbyists]] and [[think tank]]s, for example, the [[Heartland Institute]], funded by the [[
It has been suggested that the association of climate change with the Arctic in popular media may undermine effective communication of the scientific realities of anthropogenic climate change. The close association of images of Arctic glaciers, ice, and fauna with climate change might harbor cultural connotations that contradict the fragility of the region. For example, in cultural-historical narratives, the Arctic was depicted as an unconquerable, foreboding environment for explorers; in climate change discourse, the same environment is sought to be understood as fragile and easily affected by humanity.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1177/0163443716655985|author=Stenport, Anna Westerstahl |author2=Vachula, Richard S |title=Polar bears and ice: cultural connotations of Arctic environments that contradict the science of climate change|journal=Media, Culture & Society |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=282–295 |year=2017|s2cid=148499560 }}</ref>
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