De la incertidumbre climática inmediata a la futuralas agencias meteorológicas europeas como fuentes informativas de las olas de calor y el cambio climático

  1. Martín-Sosa Rodríguez, Samuel 1
  2. Jiménez-Gómez, Isidro
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Revista:
Estudios sobre el mensaje periodístico

ISSN: 1988-2696

Any de publicació: 2023

Títol de l'exemplar: Monográfico: Comunicación de riesgo y emergencias: análisis de estrategias y discursos en la era digital

Volum: 29

Pàgines: 315-325

Tipus: Article

DOI: 10.5209/ESMP.87252 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccés obert editor

Altres publicacions en: Estudios sobre el mensaje periodístico

Resum

Meteorological agencies are playing an increasingly prominent role in climate change communication. This paper compares the work of the official meteorological agencies of Spain, France, Portugal, United Kingdom and Italy as direct communicators and as a source of information on the risk posed by heat waves (immediate climate uncertainty) and climate change (future climate uncertainty). In this way, we can analyze how the European press is nourished by the work of these agencies in warning us about some extreme phenomena and their future repercussions. For this purpose, a combined methodology has been carried out, where the websites and Twitter profiles of the five official meteorological agencies are analyzed and, in addition, their impact is studied in a sample of 221 news items on heat waves published during the month of June 2022 in the online edition of 19 European newspapers. The results obtained indicate that the country of origin is key in the quality of the information provided by meteorological agencies, with France and the United Kingdom leading the way. Among the specific factors, the participation of experts in the news is the most decisive and shows that the agencies of several countries could assume, by introducing these factors, a stronger role in the dissemination of the risks involved in climate change.

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