Written by Craig Bannister on Apr 14, 2021.
Major News Outlets Pledge To Call ‘Climate Change’ A ‘Climate Emergency’
climate bogeymanA number of major news organizations worldwide, ranging from Scientific American and The Columbia Journalism Review to The Guardian and Al Jazeera, have signed a pledge to begin referring to “climate change†as a “climate emergency†in their reporting.
“Scientific American has agreed with major news outlets worldwide to start using the term ‘climate emergency’ in its coverage of climate change,†the publication announced Monday in a tweet to its 3.9 million followers touting “the impact we hope it can have throughout the media landscape.â€
“We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We’re Going to Say So,†the headline of a Scientific American commentary published Monday declares. Claiming that that climate change is “the biggest environmental emergency to beset the earth in millennia,†the piece announces the name change:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/major-news-outlets-pledge-to-call-climate-change-a-climate-emergency/