The newspapers in England, have a broad range of articles and plentiful, when you start to look them up about climate change. I first looked at the sun, because this is the newspaper I like to read. You can always get the main news that is going on in the world, but its not too heavy going.. but its enough to make you feel as though you know, pretty much what is happening. Flicking back to some of the climate change articles that have been published in The sun, they are all quite light-hearted, such as 'Elephant seals to monitor climate change'.
When looking further into articles in the sun, they actually have a big green week with everything relating to climate change and sustainable development, but it is only really, if you are interested about this, that you would find it!http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/special_events/green_week/
It is written with all the underlying factors of climate change as a serious concern, but obviously done in a 'sun kind of way', with the sun girls, and the comedy value, but generally as a whole, I think this probably works for the majority of the suns readers.
The daily telegraph when searching for articles on climate change, have many many more and varied. All are written far more seriously, which does make you take note of them in a harsher way, and 'worry' about what is going to be done about it all.
I don't think there can be a right or wrong way to print these articles, and the papers differ enormously in how they write each article, but as long as the news is being told, and people are listening and taking note, then surely, this can only be a good thing?
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It may be counter-productive of the Sun to make too many jokes about climate change. It might end up being something that isn't really funny.
Similarly by going too far in the other direction and stressing the catastrophic doom-laden scenarios it may make people feel powerless and think that their 'little bit' won't make any difference at all.
Don't forget that newspapers have business and political agendas that can direct their reporting in a certain direction.
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