Post a Comment On: A picture of health

[Image]I wanted this graphic to give an overview of data on Climate Change reporting in Science News sections of various media. The data comes from a book chapter by Boyce & Lewis (full reference is on the graphic itself). They surveyed stories in evening news bulletins on BBC1 and ITV, the Today programme on Radio 4, and six national daily newspapers and six Sunday newspapers.
The message in the chapter was that CC reporting went up in all media, and especially in TV. However, looking at the graphic I'm not so sure that's significant. If you look at the patterns in TV reporting, it seems far less stable than the other media. And the change in newspapers actually looks pretty minimal when shown in visual form... If nothing else, my graphic makes me want to see more data before making up my mind about this one...