Media and Climate Change Observatory Monthly Summary: Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden - Issue 45, September 2020

• Main Authors: Boykoff, Max, Pearman, Olivia, Nacu-Schmidt, Ami, Katzung, Jennifer, Church, Presley
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Colorado Boulder 2020
• Subjects: Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25810/y3ky-e478; https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/articles/tq57ns04w

September 2020 saw print media coverage of climate change or global warming increase, up 46% from the previous month of August 2020. Political, economic, ecological, meteorological, cultural and scientific stories all contributed to this September rebound from many months of low levels of coverage since the coronavirus pandemic struck. That said, September 2020 coverage was still down 37% from the levels of coverage a year earlier (September 2019). Figure 1 shows trends in newspaper media coverage at the global scale – organized into seven geographical regions around the world – from January 2004 through September 2020. Globally radio segments about climate change or global warming increased 90% from August 2020 but were still at levels 41% lower than in September 2019. Yet wire services – The Associated Press, Agence France Presse, The Canadian Press and United Press International – carried stories about climate change or global warming 84% more frequently in September 2020 than the previous month, and also 37% more frequently than in September 2019.