Confronting the climate crisis: the strategic role of journalists and tv weather presenters

Monday, 7 October 2019 - 6:00pm to 6:30pm

Campaigners and activists are still congratulating themselves for the massive success of the global Strike 4 Climate. Despite the adulation, a poll taken in Australia mere days before the protest found that 65% of respondents were unaware that the climate strike was taking place. And only 6% of respondents said that they would take part. So how do you get more people to care about the climate emergency?  Media watcher and Crikey correspondent, Christopher Warren talks about the professional responsibility of journalists in climate coverage, and David Holmes, Director of the Climate Change Communication Research Hub at Monash University explains how weather presenters are being mobilized to convey scientific climate information to television audiences.