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# Ramp Up the Panic Now!
- URL: https://goodoil.news/ramp-up-the-panic-now/
- Published: 2019-09-17T02:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2019-09-16T17:05:47.000Z
- Author: WH
- Tags: Climate Change, Media, NZ Climate change, World Climate change, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

There is another climate jolly in the wings. All the movers and shakers need to urgently fly to New York for a talkfest at the UN Climate Action Summit. Also, there are the climate activists and school children who are going to bunk off school for a climate strike later this month.

Something needs to be done to get the word out so more than 250 newsrooms representing 32 countries – with a combined monthly reach of more than a billion people – have signed on to a pledge to produce climate panic stories to strengthen media coverage of the climate crisis. (As if it wasn’t bad enough already.)

*Stuff* and *TVNZ* *RNZ*, *Newshub*, *NZ Herald*, *Newsroom* etc (all the usual suspects) are leading the charge here in New Zealand.

The whole initiative was founded earlier this year by *Columbia Journalism Review* and *the Nation* because they felt there was an urgent need for stronger climate coverage.

> The Covering Climate Now partners have pledged to increase the volume and visibility of their climate coverage in the first large-scale collaboration of the partnership.

“First large-scale collaboration”? Yeah, right. They have all been singing from the same song-sheet for years.

One good thing is that by printing a list of “collaborators” (sounds like those in France who helped the Jerries), they have given us a handy guide of outlets to ignore it you want any climate truth.

- TV networks (CBS News, Al Jazeera)
- Newspapers (El País, the Toronto Star)
- Digital players (BuzzFeed, HuffPost, Vox)
- Wire services (Getty Images, Bloomberg)
- Magazines (Nature, Scientific American)
- Dozens of podcasts, local publishers, radio and TV stations.

> The Guardian has long made climate coverage a top news priority, keeping the story on its front page daily. Earlier this year, The Guardian [updated its style guide](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/17/why-the-guardian-is-changing-the-language-it-uses-about-the-environment?ref=goodoil.news) to introduce new terms that **more accurately** describe the environmental crises facing the world. The Guardian now favoUrs the terms “climate crisis” and “climate emergency” over “climate change.”  
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> “We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, while also communicating clearly with readers on this very important issue,” said the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. “The phrase ‘climate change’, for example, sounds rather passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is a **catastrophe** for humanity.”  
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> The Guardian also began putting global CO2 levels in the **daily weather forecast** in its print publication earlier this year.  
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> **“At a time when civilization is accelerating toward disaster,** climate silence continues to reign across the bulk of the US news media,” \[organisers\] wrote. “Especially on television, where most Americans still get their news, the brutal demands of ratings and money work against adequate coverage of the biggest story of our time.”  
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> [Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/15/guardian-leads-global-news-collaboration-covering-climate-now?ref=goodoil.news)  

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