Media and Climate Change Observatory Monthly Summary: Scientists fear Arctic heating could trigger a climate ‘tipping point’ - Issue 27, March 2019

• Main Authors: Boykoff, Maxwell, Katzung, Jennifer, Nacu-Schmidt, Ami
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CU Scholar 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; New Zealand; Climate change; Global warming
• Online Access: https://scholar.colorado.edu/mecco_summaries/28; https://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=mecco_summaries

March 2019 coverage was up 25% from February 2019, and nearly doubled from the amount of media attention to climate change or global warming in March 2018. March 2019 coverage was up 5% in Africa, up 9% in Oceania, up 19% in Asia, up 27% in the Middle East, and up 48% in Central/South America compared to the previous month. Among monitoring at the country level, coverage increased 4% in Australia, 10% in Germany, 12% in the United Kingdom (UK), 17% in Canada, 20% in India, 21% in New Zealand and 25% in the United States (US). Among the four wire services we now monitor, there was a 55% increase in March 2019 coverage of climate change or global warming from February 2019 coverage, and nearly a doubling of coverage from March 2018 levels.