ENEP426 Chapter Notes - Chapter 30: Keeling Curve, Disinformation, Investigative Journalism

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Energy and Environmental Policy
• Course: ENEP426
• Professor: Scattone Raymond

Document Summary

Media is key contributor (among numbers of others) that shape climate change science and policy discourse as well as action. Most of the public collects their knowledge about science from mass media. Many times science needs to be translated to be understood. Mass media defined as publishers, editors, journalists, and others who constitute the communications industry and profession, and who produce, translate, interpret, and disseminate information, largely through newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and the internet. Vital role in communication between science, policy, and the public. A brief history of the climate change science-policy-media. Modern scientific investigations in climate change and the development of mass media communications began concurrently 1700s and 1800s. As developments continued, power of mass media grew too. Military interests developed and used media technologies and climate science to achieve strategic goals as a sort of military-climate industrial complex . Funding for particular military programs served contribution to progress of climate science research.