When Dire Climate News Came, Canada’s Front Pages Crumpled | The Tyee: Note: I certainly don’t want to stand up for Postmedia newspapers, but if anyone hasn’t noticed, our federal government doesn’t take it very serious either.

But even the Canadian newspapers that did promote the importance of
the IPCC report were less generous than many of their American
counterparts. The biggest exception was Torstar’s the Toronto Star,
which was found to have the “most accurate climate coverage” in a recent study of 17 international newspapers published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
It used about half of its front page to promote three staff-authored
stories about that report the day after its release, beneath the
headline “Code Red.”

But other newspapers in the Postmedia chain
didn’t seem as worried about that warning. They included the Calgary
Herald, the Edmonton Journal, the Vancouver Sun, and the flagship
National Post, which was found to have the “least accurate” climate
change coverage in the Environmental Research Letters study. Those newspapers fronted the IPCC report by promoting a story about how Canada’s oil patch remains “confident” about its future, despite findings that the UN’s Guterres said “must sound a death knell” for fossil fuels.

When Dire Climate News Came, Canada’s Front Pages Crumpled | The Tyee: Note: I certainly don’t want to stand up for Postmedia newspapers, but if anyone hasn’t noticed, our federal government doesn’t take it very serious either.But even the Canadian newspapers that did promote the importance of
the IPCC report were less generous than many of their American
counterparts. The biggest exception was Torstar’s the Toronto Star,
which was found to have the “most accurate climate coverage” in a recent study of 17 international newspapers published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
It used about half of its front page to promote three staff-authored
stories about that report the day after its release, beneath the
headline “Code Red.”But other newspapers in the Postmedia chain
didn’t seem as worried about that warning. They included the Calgary
Herald, the Edmonton Journal, the Vancouver Sun, and the flagship
National Post, which was found to have the “least accurate” climate
change coverage in the Environmental Research Letters study. Those newspapers fronted the IPCC report by promoting a story about how Canada’s oil patch remains “confident” about its future, despite findings that the UN’s Guterres said “must sound a death knell” for fossil fuels.Read More