Attributing Climate Change to Extreme Weather Events: Developing a Code of Best Practices for Media Producers
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Koch, Haley
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As events of extreme weather occur at an increasing frequency and severity, they are deconstructed and discussed through media outlets in a complex variety of ways. Climate scientists now have the capacity to say observable effects of anthropogenic climate change exist that are the source of exacerbation for many categories of extreme weather events. As climate change, in general, is a subject lacking depth of public understanding and saliency, it becomes essential to the progress of climate solutions that anthropogenic climate change and its effects be robustly communicated through media whenever possible; Events of extreme weather are a devastating truth of our climate today, but provide an incredibly tangible representation of what the effects of climate change can look like, which is why media outlets should be making the connection clearly apparent. Through the creation of a “Code of Best Practices for Attributing Climate Change to Events of Extreme Weather,” media producers will be provided with a set of guidelines they can follow to ensure their content is effectively becoming an active contributor to the
climate change conversation, in the context of events of extreme weather.
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Single page poster
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Communication science, Event attribution, Extreme weather, Climate change, Media, Media production