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[[Climate communication|Climate change communication]] research shows that coverage has grown and become more accurate.<ref name="Climate Change 2022" />{{Rp|page=11}}
Some researchers and journalists believe that media coverage of [[politics of climate change]] is adequate and fair, while a few feel that it is biased.<ref name="NewmanEtAl2018">{{cite journal |last1=Newman |first1=Todd P. |last2=Nisbet |first2=Erik C. |last3=Nisbet |first3=Matthew C. |title=Climate change, cultural cognition, and media effects: Worldviews drive news selectivity, biased processing, and polarized attitudes |journal=Public Understanding of Science |date=November 2018 |volume=27 |issue=8 |pages=985–1002 |doi=10.1177/0963662518801170 |pmid=30253695 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lichter |first1=S. R. |last2=Rothman |first2=S. |chapter=The media and national defense |pages=265–282 |editor1-first=Robert L. |editor1-last=Pfaltzgraff |editor2-first=Uri |editor2-last=Ra'anan |title=National Security Policy: The Decision-making Process |date=1984 |publisher=Archon Books |isbn=978-0-208-02003-1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bozell |first1=L. Brent |last2=Baker |first2=Brent H. |title=And That's the Way it Is(n't): A Reference Guide to Media Bias |date=1990 |publisher=Media Research Center |isbn=978-0-9627348-0-9 |oclc=551474402 }}{{pn|date=June 2025}}</ref><ref name="Nissani-1999">{{cite journal |last1=Nissani |first1=Moti |title=Media coverage of the greenhouse effect |journal=Population and Environment |date=September 1999 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=27–43 |doi=10.1007/BF02436119 }}</ref>
== History ==
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In 2007, the [[BBC]] announced the cancellation of a planned television special ''[[Planet Relief]]'', which would have highlighted the global warming issue and included a mass electrical switch-off.<ref>{{cite news |last=Black |first=Richard |date=5 September 2007 |title=BBC switches off climate special |work=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6979596.stm |access-date=15 December 2011}}</ref> The editor of BBC's [[Newsnight]] current affairs show said: "It is absolutely not the BBC's job to save the planet. I think there are a lot of people who think that, but it must be stopped."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/sep/05/bbc.television2 BBC drops climate change special]. ''[[The Guardian]]''. 5 September 2007. Retrieved 15 December 2011.</ref> Author [[Mark Lynas]] said "The only reason why this became an issue is that there is a small but vociferous group of extreme right-wing climate 'sceptics' lobbying against taking action, so the BBC is behaving like a coward and refusing to take a more consistent stance."<ref>McCarthy, Michael, [http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2934318.ece Global Warming: Too Hot to Handle for the BBC] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070915053005/http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2934318.ece|date=15 September 2007}}, ''The Independent'', 6 September 2007</ref>
A peak in media coverage occurred in early 2007, driven by the [[IPCC Fourth Assessment Report]] and [[Al Gore]]'s documentary ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]''.<ref name=Boykoff2010India/> A subsequent peak in late 2009, which was 50% higher,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/media_coverage/ |title=2004–2010 World Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming |work=Center for Science and Technology Policy Research |publisher=[[University of Colorado at Boulder]] |access-date=2010-08-15 |archive-date=2019-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831031804/https://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/media_coverage/ |url-status=live }}</ref> may have been driven by a combination of the November 2009 [[Climatic Research Unit email controversy]] and December [[2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference]].<ref name=Boykoff2010India>{{cite journal |last1=Boykoff |first1=Max |title=Indian media representations of climate change in a threatened journalistic ecosystem |journal=Climatic Change |date=March 2010 |volume=99 |issue=1–2 |pages=17–25 |doi=10.1007/s10584-010-9807-8 |bibcode=2010ClCh...99...17B }}</ref><
The Media and Climate Change Observatory team at the University of Colorado Boulder found that 2017 "saw media attention to climate change and global warming ebb and flow" with June seeing the maximum global media coverage on both subjects. This rise is "largely attributed to news surrounding United States (US) President Donald J. Trump's withdrawal from the 2015 United Nations (UN) [[Paris agreement|Paris Climate Agreement]], with continuing media attention paid to the emergent US isolation following through the [[43rd G7 summit|G7 summit]] a few weeks later."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Boykoff|first1=M.|last2=Andrews|first2=K.|last3=Daly|first3=M.|last4=Katzung|first4=J.|last5=Luedecke|first5=G.|last6=Maldonado|first6=C.|last7=Nacu-Schmidt|first7=A.|title=A Review of Media Coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming in 2017|url=http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/icecaps/research/media_coverage/summaries/special_issue_2017.html|publisher=Media and Climate Change Observatory, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado|access-date=2018-03-02|archive-date=2019-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806225441/https://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/icecaps/research/media_coverage/summaries/special_issue_2017.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
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A 2020 study in ''PNAS'' found that newspapers tended to give greater coverage of press releases that opposed action on climate change than those that supported action. The study attributes it to [[false balance]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wetts|first=Rachel|date=2020-07-23|title=In climate news, statements from large businesses and opponents of climate action receive heightened visibility|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=117|issue=32|pages=19054–19060 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1921526117 |pmid=32719122|pmc=7431090|bibcode=2020PNAS..11719054W |doi-access=free }}</ref>
Research that was done by Todd Newman, Erik Nisbet, and Matthew Nisbet shows that people's partisan preference is an indicator as to which media outlet they will most likely consume. Most media outlets often align with a particular partisan ideology. This causes people to resort to selective exposure which influences views on world issues such as climate change beliefs.<ref
Since 1990 climate scientists have communicated urgent warnings while simultaneously experiencing the media converting their statements into sensational entertainment.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Richardson |first1=John H. |date=20 July 2018 |title=When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job |url=https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a36228/ballad-of-the-sad-climatologists-0815/ |website=Esquire}}</ref>
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Gallup's annual update on Americans' attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years (2008-2010) has become less worried about the threat of [[global warming]], less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to believe that scientist themselves are uncertain about its occurrence. In response to one key question, 48% of Americans now believe that the seriousness of global warming is generally exaggerated, up from 41% in 2009 and 31% in 1997, when Gallup first asked the question.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Newport |first1=Frank |title=Americans' Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop |url=https://news.gallup.com/poll/126560/americans-global-warming-concerns-continue-drop.aspx |work=Gallup |date=11 March 2010 }}</ref>
Data from the Media Matters for America organization has shown that, despite 2015 being "a year marked by more landmark actions to address climate change than ever before", the combined climate coverage on the top broadcast networks was down by 5% from 2014.<ref>{{cite web|title=How Broadcast Networks Covered Climate Change in 2015|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/302896750/Media-Matters-Climate-Broadcast-Study|website=Scribd|publisher=Media Matters for America|access-date=2018-03-01|archive-date=2021-11-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119205858/https://www.scribd.com/doc/302896750/Media-Matters-Climate-Broadcast-Study|url-status=live}}</ref><
President [[Donald Trump]] denies the threat of global warming publicly. As a result of the Trump Presidency, media coverage on climate change was expected to decline during his term as president.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Park |first1=David J |title=United States news media and climate change in the era of US President Trump |journal=Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management |date=November 2017 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=202–204 |doi=10.1002/ieam.2011 |pmid=29193745 |bibcode=2018IEAM...14..202P }}</ref>{{update inline|date=December 2020}}
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