Is the UK Media Fuelling the Climate Crisis?
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Welcome to episode 6! Today we speak to Josh Gabbattis at Carbon Brief about climate misinformation in the UK media - who's writing it, and what does it say?
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Thanks to our guest today, Josh Gabbatiss! You can find him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/josh_gabbatiss
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References
Costa Del Snow headline in the Daily Mail https://archive.is/o4f6A
Dale Vince says greenwashing is good (it's not) https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/02/greenwashing-is-a-good-thing-according-to-one-renewable-energy-tycoon.html
Shell's "green investment" actually supporting fossil gas https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-gas/shell-faces-groundbreaking-complaint-misleading-us-authorities-and-investors-its-energy-transition-efforts/
How UK newspapers changed their minds about climate change since 2011 https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/how-uk-newspapers-changed-minds-climate-change/
Carbon Brief's database of newspaper editorials since 2011 https://www.carbonbrief.org/editorials-where-uk-newspapers-stand-on-climate-change-and-energy/
Studies on discourses of climate delay. The new climate misinformation? Global Sustainability journal https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/discourses-of-climate-delay/7B11B722E3E3454BB6212378E32985A7
A rise in support for fracking in 2022, based on the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy's Public Attitudes Tracker https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/public-attitudes-tracking-survey
You're more likely to believe climate misinformation if you read certain UK papers. Results from Climate Action Against Disinformation survey https://caad.info/report/the-impacts-of-climate-disinformation-on-public-perception-2/
The Sun's headline from 2013: "Get rid of the green crap" https://archive.is/W9AV1
Meanwhile cutting that "green crap" in the last 10 years has added £2.5 billion to our energy bills. https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cutting-the-green-crap-has-added-2-5bn-to-uk-energy-bills/
Latest tranche of onshore wind projects over will be nine times cheaper than fossil gas https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-low-price-for-uk-offshore-wind-is-four-times-cheaper-than-gas/
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