Media fails to link heatwave to climate change

The failure of Australia’s media to link the country’s present heatwave difficulties to climate change has been explored on The Conversation by Simon Dicheva from the Environment Institute at the University of Adelaide.

His story, headed: “Media is missing climate in heatwave story” tells us that of some 800 articles in the past 10 days, fewer than ten of those discussed “climate change”, “greenhouse gas”, carbon or “global warming”.

“Even with the occasional mention,” he writes, “these articles often obscure the link.”