Meteorologists in Spain, France, Australia and the U.K. It’s not just a problem in the United States. It is increasingly common to at least show its effects, he said, like highlighting the trend of more days in a year hitting temperatures above 90 degrees (32 degrees Celsius). Now TV meteorologists across the country report on climate change, though Maibach said they don’t always use those words. She faced bitter and sexist resistance from some viewers, including conservative leaders, as she challenged other TV forecasters to address global warming in their reporting.Ĭlimate Matters, a National Science Foundation-funded project, piloted in 2010 and fully launched in 2012 to support reporting on climate change by providing data analysis, graphics and other reporting materials. The Weather Channel gave its first climate reporter, scientist Heidi Cullen, a dedicated show in 2006.

Falsehoods, harassment stress local election offices in USĪ decade ago, far fewer TV meteorologists were talking about climate change on air, although they wanted to do so, said Edward Maibach, the director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University.

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