Some meteorologists don’t see harassment as a direct result of their reporting on climate change it’s a pervasive issue in the industry and targets some more than others. also have been subjected to complaints and harassment, said Jennie King, the London-based head of climate research and policy at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Meteorologists in Spain, France, Australia and the U.K. It’s not just a problem in the United States.
“You want to know how you can best succeed with these conditions,” he said. Meteorologist Matt Serwe, who used to work in Nebraska, said the livelihoods of farmers who live there depend on the weather, so they take climate change seriously. Jessica Hafner, chief meteorologist at Columbia, Missouri’s KMIZ-TV, said that with the exception of a few hecklers, she’s seen people respond well to data-based reporting because they want to know what’s going on around them. Some meteorologists have seen public interest in climate change grow even in largely red states as flooding, drought and other severe weather has ravaged farmland and homes. “If you stop reporting on relevant and important facts about what’s going on in your community because you’re hearing from the one out of 10, it means you are not serving the other nine out of 10,” Maibach said. It is increasingly common to at least show its effects, he said, like highlighting the trend of more days in a year hitting temperatures above 90 degrees (32 degrees Celsius).Įven if that kind of reporting resonates with most people, the criticism can be the loudest. Now TV meteorologists across the country report on climate change, though Maibach said they don’t always use those words.
She faced bitter and sexist resistance from some viewers, including conservative leaders, as she challenged other TV forecasters to address global warming in their reporting.Ĭlimate Matters, a National Science Foundation-funded project, piloted in 2010 and fully launched in 2012 to support reporting on climate change by providing data analysis, graphics and other reporting materials. The Weather Channel gave its first climate reporter, scientist Heidi Cullen, a dedicated show in 2006.
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