Climate change narratives don't support action

A study in Global Environmental Change, analyzed a collection of about 50,000 scientific publications on climate change for the year 2020 was carried out to identify what research made news. It turns out that most of the research filtered through focused on large-scale climate projections that will occur in the future, and a narrow range of threats such as polar bears, drought and melting glaciers.

The paper also suggests that this type of narrative doesn’t spark change. Instead, the media's selective choice of certain elements of climate change research could backfire, provoking denial and avoidance.