"Some 89% of people worldwide say they want more action on the climate crisis. Nearly seven in 10 note they would donate 1% of their income to help. In the US, two-thirds are at least somewhat worried about global warming. And yet, Americans hear remarkably little about a crisis reshaping the global economy, displacing populations, worsening extreme weather, and affecting nearly every facet of daily life."
""If the media's not reporting the issue of climate change, it's out of sight and out of mind for people," said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale program. The problem has become even more acute at a time when the US president is openly hostile to the scientific consensus on climate change. Donald Trump and his allies have pushed misleading narratives about the trade-offs of green energy, drawing reporters into covering false controversies instead of facts and making the job of reporting harder."
""The Trump administration is playing reporters like a fiddle on the issue of trade-offs" by bringing up red herrings and sending reporters down rabbit holes, Jael Holzman, a climate reporter at Heatmap News, told DW. Clean energy disinformation Among President Trump's misleading claims is that offshore wind projects are "driving the whales crazy" and are the hidden cause of the marine mammals washing up dead."
Some 89% of people worldwide want more action on the climate crisis, and nearly seven in ten would donate 1% of their income to help. In the United States, two-thirds are at least somewhat worried about global warming, yet more than half receive news about climate change several times a year or less. Limited media coverage reduces public awareness. Political leaders who reject scientific consensus and promote misleading narratives about green energy divert reporters into covering false controversies. Claims that offshore wind is causing whale strandings lack scientific support; scientists cite vessel strikes and fishing-gear entanglements as primary causes, but unsubstantiated concerns still receive coverage.
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