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From Climate Scepticism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0TONY THOMAS<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate journalists are confessing they need psychological counselling: reporting on the climate\u2019s supposed death-spiral is damaging their mental stability. As one Stanford academic puts it,<\/a> \u201cThis is quite similar to what happens with investigators of international crimes, human trafficking, rape, abuse and people who\u2019ve been tortured. I think very seriously that that needs to be paralleled in environmental sciences and environmental journalism, because it\u2019s incredibly taxing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try seeing life through these reporters\u2019 eyes. Rainy? \u201cThat\u2019s an unprecedented climate-fuelled rain bomb\u201d. Not rainy? \u201cThe Science tells us that climate-fuelled droughts are the new normal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who write daily about the climate\u2019s crisis\/emergency\/breakdown\/collapse (I use here The <\/em>Guardian<\/em>\u2019s style book<\/a>), extra grief must arise when their doom-laden predictions do not come to pass. The smart ones now shun short-term forecasts and report earnestly on disasters due in 2050 or 2100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate journalists\u2019 grief includes the hip-pocket variety, where their cash-strapped bosses decide the climate round is the easiest to ditch. Those reporters get re-assigned to mundane reporting or, even worse, pushed from salaried to freelancer status. No wonder Associated Press grabbed a $US8 million payola last year from leftist billionnaires<\/a> to boost its climate coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe\u2019s climate correspondents are suffering too. For a statement from the heart by a typically traumatised environment reporter, you can\u2019t go past veteran US climate scribe and eco-socialist<\/a> Eric Holthaus, who now also runs a meteorology business. \u2018I lose sleep over climate change almost every single night,<\/a>\u201d he explained in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t remember how long this has been happening, but it\u2019s been quite a while, and it\u2019s only getting worse. I confess: I need help\u2026 I\u2019ve spent most of the past year alternating between soul-crushing despair and headstrong hope\u2026  For now at least, the good days are enough to keep me going \u2026 But there are also days when I\u2019m paralyzed. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past several months, I\u2019ve stopped talking about climate change with my parents, my wife, and my sister in order to avoid heated dialogue about what I think is the most important issue in the world. Instead, I\u2019ve privately sought out personal advice from other scientists and journalists, and often commiserated with strangers. \u2026. I know that I need to preserve my own well-being to continue to fight for the planet.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2013 Holthaus made a splash in mainstream media over his pledge, \u201cVows: Why I\u2019m never flying again \u2013 goodbye to all that<\/a>\u201d, with a pic of himself \u201cboarding my last flight\u201d. As both a pilot and frequent flyer, he notched up 75,000 air-miles in the previous year. He had just dipped into the 2013 IPCC report \u2013 which he called \u201ca death warrant written in stark, black-and-white data.\u201d In tears, he phoned his wife from San Francisco Airport, saying, \u201cIf anything is to change, it will have to come from individuals taking ownership of the problem themselves \u2026 Individual gestures, repeated by millions of people, could make a huge difference.\u201d He also vowed not to have any children, for the same CO2 reason: \u201cno children, happy to go extinct.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, his zeal apparently waned and without any media publicity he mentioned seven years later<\/a> (at 20min30sec) that he was taking one or two round-trip USA-Amsterdam flights a year for family reasons. Meanwhile he\u2019d fathered a boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wolfgang Blau is a veteran woke media executive (Guardian, <\/em>of course, and Zeit Online<\/em>) and former president (International) and COO of lifestyle magazine empire Conde Nast. Two years ago he co-founded with Reuters the Oxford Climate Journalism Network to coach climate journalists and provide them with their necessary misinformation.[1]<\/a>The Network has been funded by about \u00a3450,000 a year from the net-zero-promoting European Climate Foundation<\/a> with its 280 staff<\/a>   and the Laudes Foundation<\/a>. Blau wants just about every media article<\/a>to stress global warming, including sport, food, travel, fashion, health, culture, gardening, real estate<\/a>, technology and personal finance, \u201cto mention a few,\u201d he said. \u201cIt [climate] changes everything.\u201d  In a long speech<\/a>, he said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to the mental health of climate journalists, though, there is a cultural element to consider: In general, the news industry has quite a lot of institutional knowledge about how to protect the mental health of its war and crisis reporters who are about to or have already witnessed horrible events. Not as much is known, though, about the health effects it can have on journalists to work on climate change full-time or also to feel marginalised or simply not understood in their own newsrooms, regarding the seriousness of the climate situation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had the privilege of getting invited into the meetings of various newly-founded self-help networks of climate journalists in different European countries. In all of these meetings, I was surprised by the degree to which these journalists expressed their need for a peer group that would also provide them with the emotional support their own news organisations were not giving them, even if this meant sharing knowledge with your direct competitors.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some climate reporters stress out when their editors and readers fail to pay attention to their work because of \u201csubtle mental and emotional constructs\u201d such as denial and avoidance. Blau explains, \u201cI have seen journalists pointing fingers at their own readers or viewers after they did not engage with their climate journalism as much as these journalists thought their audience should have \u2026 Denial needs to be addressed with empathy, precision and a degree of patience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blau, who is also a climate adviser to the UN, cites favourably Agence France Presse (AFP), which is \u201cbeginning to adjust to the climate reality \u2026 in their news selection.\u201d AFP, with 1700 reporters globally, has literally signed the pledge of the Covering Climate Now global group to hype climate alarm and suppress news involving \u201cdenialism\u201d. He also wants climate reporters to add \u201csolutions\u201d to their stories so readers won\u2019t despair and switch off. He doesn\u2019t spell out any \u201csolution\u201d to China and India ramping up their reliable coal-fired energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blau even worries that his minions have been too<\/em>successful<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A related sentiment of despair or disenfranchisement of younger people also came through in the \u2018European Moments<\/a>\u2019 study by Professor Timothy Garton Ash. In this representative study, 53 per cent of young Europeans across 27 EU nations and the UK between the ages of 16 and 29 agree or somewhat agree with the idea that authoritarian states are better equipped than democracies to tackle the climate crisis, a finding that should worry any news organisation that defines its role as informing a democratic public sphere.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blau wants newsrooms\u2019 ethics code expanded to stop cynical colleagues accusing their climate colleagues of being activists, just because they keep bleating about the (mythical) climate \u201cemergency\u201d. He cautions<\/a>: \u201cJournalists should not speak pejoratively of \u2018activism\u2019 because past activists gave us the vote, freedom of speech and press freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He describes how newsrooms have become hellscapes with climate reporters jostling with their non-climate colleagues for by-lines. One climate journalist told Blau<\/a>: \u201cI have the full support from my chief editor. I have even been given a budget increase. My problem is now the foreign editor who doesn\u2019t give me access to our foreign bureaus when I need them because my stories \u2014 supposedly \u2014 are never as urgent as other breaking news stories \u2014 and my other and bigger problem are the news desk editors who don\u2019t give my story a prime time slot or never quite promote it on social media at the right time of day because they think it won\u2019t perform well\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile academics frown as they draft points-earning research papers about stressed-out journos, most commonly citing the well-known associations between journalists and alcohol<\/a>. One such is Dr Britt Wray<\/a> of Stanford[2]<\/a> writing \u201cabout climate change, the mental health crisis it is predicted to induce and how climate reporters can cope with the difficulties of the beat<\/a>.\u201d She writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One [journalist] was talking about the three young kids that she has, and she\u2019s starting to face up to new thoughts that they\u2019re not going to get to live out a fully expected human lifetime, according to what she\u2019d normally taken for granted. And she just looks at them and feels hopeless\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Climate journalists] also ask about how to reframe despair. \u201cDo I have to prepare to be able to deal with that kind of grief in a situation that I can\u2019t at all control?\u201d They are looking for psychological coping tools to not just spiral around having brought kids into the world, but to shift to thoughts of, \u2018What can I do to support them to develop the grit that\u2019s needed to endure the future that they\u2019re inheriting?\u2019\u2026Journalists can benefit from being educated on ways to soothe their nervous systems in moments of high emotional drama, stress or teetering on burnout. This is where contemplative\/meditative practices can be super helpful.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mentioned earlier the sinister media influencer Covering Climate Now (CCN). It happens that CCN\u2019s own executives are also losing it mentally from their tireless efforts to warp the West\u2019s climate reporting. Mark Hertsgaard<\/a>, CCN\u2019s executive director, is quoted,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We risk burning ourselves out if we don\u2019t take care of ourselves and take care of one another\u2026 In the spirit of full disclosure, let me begin by confessing that <\/em>my colleagues at Covering Climate Now and I are as in need of help on this front as anyone<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we felt like we just had to step up to those [issues] so we pushed onwards until our own exhaustion finally made us look in the mirror and say, \u2018Dude, you need help.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He sympathised with climate reporters \u201cseeing climate problems as overwhelming and urgent, carrying the burden of knowledge that society as a whole is either unable or unwilling to face. It\u2019s really those people who are so passionate and committed to their work that tend to have a higher risk of burnout when the organization is set up to not give resources in time for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His panellist Brian Kahn<\/a>, managing editor of Earther<\/em>at Gizmodo Media explains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kahn:<\/strong> There are people dying, suffering, climate change is 100% bad. But sometimes a way to cope with it is to find either that dark humor or just something to help break up the real down-the- dumps darkest thoughts that you have, and find ways to push through and report the stories that really matter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hertsgaard:<\/strong> \u201cOne of my big frustrations is when there\u2019s a new story that clearly has a climate angle, but climate is not or barely included in the story. How do you work with colleagues who just don\u2019t get it or with editors refuse to do it?\u2026 In the midst of all that, how do we deal with the fact that many managers still assume 150% productivity and focus and all of that at all times despite the fact that internally, you\u2019re dealing with climate despair and knowing too much about the climate emergency?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kahn:<\/strong> So, I think I\u2019ve been lucky enough to work in newsrooms where \u2026 people want to do more climate reporting. So, I\u2019ve been lucky enough to be approached by other editors at our sites, other writers wanting to actually contribute to climate and do more on that front, which is really wonderful to see.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Against recalcitrant editors, Kahn suggests climate reporters operate like \u201cclimate ambassadors\u201d, politely urging them to include more hype, rather than \u201cusing the stick\u201d against them: \u201cHey, you didn\u2019t cover this. What the heck?\u201d Hertsgaard suggests going over their head to their superiors \u2013 \u201cof course, there\u2019s risks to that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I haven\u2019t found much about Australian climate journalists\u2019 health and equanimity, but it must be stressful for them to read how, for example, the UAH (University of Alabama, Huntsville) satellite readings<\/a>now show no Australian warming<\/a> for the past 11 years. The NASA satellites provide complete cover of our continent, unlike the BoM\u2019s thin scatter of land-based readouts.  And the UAH data is transparent, unlike the BoM\u2019s series which is subject to concealments from FOI and mystery upward adjustments.<\/a> Plus, all the Aussie climate journos\u2019  wailing about the Great Barrier Reef\u2019s demise is now outed as retailers of utter nonsense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take the ABC\u2019s national science and environment reporter, Michael Slezak. In his previous job with The Guardian<\/em> (or course), he won the United Nations\u2019 Association Climate Reporting Award in 2017 for a giant 5300-word piece bewailing the imminent climate-caused loss of the Great Barrier Reef  \u2013\u201cA catastrophe laid bare \u2026 smell of death on the reef\u2026\u201d.<\/strong>[3]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike\u2019s dilemma is how to hand back the award<\/a> and return any cash component to the sponsors, since data last August from the Australian Institute of Marine Science shows the Reef has burgeoned to record coral cover<\/a>. Contrast this with what Slezak wrote seven years ago: \u201cBleaching caused by climate change has killed almost a quarter of its coral this year and many scientists believe it could be too late for the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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He fretted about \u201cmurder on the reef\u201d by carbon emissions and global warming: \u201clittle chance of full recovery within the next 10 years\u201d (it\u2019s recovered already); \u201ccatastrophic\u201d loss; \u201cextreme ecosystem meltdown\u201d; \u201cutter devastation\u201d; \u201chalf the coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef has been lost \u2013 and that\u2019s before the mass bleaching this year is taken into account\u201d and \u201cWe may have already made its death inevitable.\u201d As in that 1975 movie Jaws<\/em>, he unmasked the Reef\u2019s supposed guilty parties:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s clear that a cabal of climate change deniers, worried tourism operators, and a conservative government have tried to whitewash the environmental disaster unfolding over the Great Barrier Reef.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s much the same with Nick O\u2019Malley, national environment and climate editor for The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> and The Age<\/em>. I loved the drama of his contribution<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How heat became the \u2018silent killer\u2019 stalking Australia \u2026 heat already kills far more Australians than all other extreme weather events combined. The death toll is only set to grow.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What? A table in The Lancet<\/em><\/a> estimating Australian deaths from hot weather versus cold weather found cold deaths were 6.5 per cent of mortality vs only 0.5 per cent from heat<\/a>. That is, cold is 13 times more deadly than heat.[4]<\/a> Another study<\/a> put cold at six times deadlier. Data from the UK Office for National Statistics shows that during the past 20 years of warming temperatures, 509,555 fewer people died in the UK<\/a> as a result of cold temperatures. Bravo, global warming. But who can even imagine the stress such data must cause climate reporter O\u2019Malley?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s ironic that the world\u2019s climate journos, advocating for the destruction of the world\u2019s fossil-fuel energy, turn to jelly when they notice some pushback on their social media accounts. Says Wolfgang Blau<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have spoken with a few climate journalists who told me there were considering leaving climate journalism again as they felt worn down or left alone by their newsroom in defending themselves against climate trolls\u2026For newsroom managers and social media editors, it is important to not view all trolling or outright hate speech against their journalists across all topics as one and the same phenomenon. To discredit climate journalism is a key part of orchestrated climate disinformation campaigns that oftentimes are very well funded. [5]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, Blau doesn\u2019t clarify how and by whom sceptics\u2019 writings are \u201corchestrated\u201d, and how we can apply for our cheques from fossil-fuel tycoons.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I noticed a newsletter reporter, Emily Atkins, who goes in for \u201cclimate accountability journalism\u201d writing a shocker<\/a>[6]<\/a>, \u201cIn defence of politicising hurricanes \u2013 there\u2019s nothing wrong with tying unfolding tragedies to climate change\u201d<\/a>. She got well-deserved pushback, causing her promptly to \u201cmute her feed\u201d.<\/em>    Another climate journalist, Nate Johnson, 44, of Grist,<\/em> stressed out so much last year about the uselessness of his reporting that he took up a new career as a van-based electrician<\/a>. \u201cIf I was at the right age during World War II, I probably would have enlisted. And now the great challenge of our time isn\u2019t Nazi Germany, it\u2019s climate change \u2026 And being an electrician feels like a useful way to enlist\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In public-esteem polling, journalists typically run third-last. In Australia, the latest  Readers\u2019 Digest<\/em> poll<\/a>put us second-last, just ahead of politicians.   Climate journalists? Don\u2019t even ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tony Thomas\u2019s new book from Connor Court is <\/strong><\/em>Anthem of the Unwoke \u2013 Yep! The other lot\u2019s gone bonkers<\/strong>. For a copy ($AUD35 including postage), email tthomas061@gmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a> Graham Lloyd, writer for Murdoch\u2019s The Australian<\/em>, is among the tiny number of the mainstream\u2019s fair and rigorous climate correspondents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> Dr Wray is described as the \u201cLead of the Special Initiative of the Chair on Climate Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Stanford Medicine.\u201d She opines, \u201cNegative environmental change is becoming more widespread, and people are feeling a variety of negative feelings: terror, grief, anxiety, dread, worry, concern, rage, fear \u2014 all these things that are actually very reasonable because our life support systems are being attacked and undone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> \u201cThe Guardian<\/em>\u2019s use of powerful photographs, video, data visualisations and strong interactives made for stunning journalism. Slezak\u2019s reporting on the devastation climate change has wreaked on the Reef<\/a>has held the Australian government to account, and led the world in raising the profile of the issue to one that leads news bulletins internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> The large-scale study published in 2015 involved 384 locations in 13 countries. The Australian data was deaths from 1988 to 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> Strangely, examples given of \u201cdisinformation\u201d<\/a>include that \u201crenewable energy can\u2019t work\u201d (especially during wind droughts) and \u201cthe ice isn\u2019t melting\u201d (Arctic sea ice has stabilised in the past decade<\/a> and the Antarctic has shown no warming for 70 years<\/a> and sea ice has modestly expanded).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a>\u00a0Atkins wrote, \u201cDemocratic candidates who represent Americans affected by these historic weather events have a unique opportunity to adapt to this new reality, and highlight the\u00a0consequences of climate denial<\/a>\u00a0on voters\u2019 lives. Republicans might call them insensitive. But voters deserve lawmakers who would rather protect them from disasters than protect them from the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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