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I mean, really, in a post-COVID word, a lot of the public just doesn’t care. They aren’t interested in reading about it or watching it. There are many reasons, and this is not making the cult happy

Global News Coverage of Climate Change Falls for Fourth Straight Year

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Global news coverage of climate change declined for the fourth straight year in 2025, even as emissions hit new highs, according to a new analysis.

Coverage is down 14 percent from 2024 and down 38 percent from 2021, when the volume of reporting on climate change peaked, according to an analysis from the Media and Climate Change Observatory, a project at the University of Colorado. Coverage of climate change declined in every region, but the drop-off was most pronounced in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and North America.

“Ongoing political economic headwinds and newsroom consolidation and reductions have contributed to this diminished coverage, said lead author Max Boykoff, a professor at the University of Colorado. “Moreover, there is finite news space for competing stories, with the Trump administration flooding the public sphere with news stories across several domains.”

Trump wasn’t president from 2021 through 2024. Even if the US media was deranged over Trump even while Biden was in office, would the news in Africa, the ME, and Europe spend lots of TDS time?

In the U.S., climate journalists have found themselves on the chopping block at leading news outlets. CBS News laid off most of its climate team in October, and in February The Washington Post followed suit. The paper dismissed 14 climate journalists, including reporters, editors, and videographers.

I guess these outlets are supposed to be forced to cover this?

Anyhow, let’s head to the unhinged coverage of this story

The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?

Scientists are pretty sure that Earth is hotter than at any time in the last 125,000 years, but the news media is moving on, trying to keep on top of a fire hose of pressing news — from the daily chaos of the Trump administration to the breaking developments in the war on Iran. The shift in attention started during the COVID-19 pandemic and, despite a temporary rebound, has gathered pace in recent years: Since its peak in 2021, global news coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent, according to data from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Media and Climate Change Observatory.

“Pretty sure”. It either is or isn’t. That’s science. Anyhow, the planet is overheating from a whopping 1.7F increase since 1850, which is less than during the previous Holocene warm periods.