Catastrophes and disasters in the news about climate change in Spain from 2019 to 2021
Abstract
The link between climate change and catastrophes is increasingly close. This paper analyzes these dependencies to learn how certain natural phenomena cause catastrophes and how certain anthropic circumstances try to avoid them or, on the contrary, only manage to cause them. Random samples have been taken between 2019, 2020 and 2021 to record relevant events such as climate summits, climate action weeks or particular extreme weather events. In the search, the filters “climate change”, “catastrophe” and “disaster” were used in headlines and in the news. The main communication media (agencies, press, radio and television) were selected according to their different modalities (digital and non-digital). The results confirmed that the dependence between climate change and catastrophes is very close, but this does not mean that this relationship is explained by journalists, nor sufficiently understood by readers.
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