1. The document analyzes the representation of climate change skeptics in German news media through a discourse analysis of over 400 articles discussing COP 17 in Durban.
2. Preliminary results found that explicitly skeptical frames were rare, with most clusters focusing on problems with climate policy or the difficulties of reinforcing rules.
3. It proposes that defeatism is the dominant frame in German media's reporting on climate change.
1. German Climate Skeptics and the News Media
A Discourse Analysis on Issues, Positions and the Specifics of these Agents
Jonas Kaiser, Markus Rhomberg
ECREA 2012 Istanbul | Panel: Science and Environment Communication