ABSTRACT

The summer heatwave of 2018 was the longest heatwave in the UK in recent years and scientists connected it to global climate change and heatwaves noted internationally. As one of the few existing studies looking at if and how the media make the link between extreme weather phenomena and climate change, this research examines whether and to what extent British broadsheets and tabloids made the connection between the heatwave and global climate change in their heatwave related texts and how climate change was framed in those texts, using both quantitative and qualitative analysis. The findings reveal that, in terms of agenda setting, climate change was almost absent, especially in the widely read tabloids; in relation to the framing of climate change, the media studied did not frame climate change as the underlying cause behind the heatwave.

摘要

2018 年的夏季热浪是近年来英国最长的热浪，科学家将其与全球气候变化和国际知名的热浪联系起来。作为为数不多的研究媒体是否以及如何将极端天气现象与气候变化联系起来的现有研究之一，本研究探讨了英国的大报和小报是否以及在多大程度上将热浪与热浪与全球气候变化联系起来相关文本以及如何使用定量和定性分析在这些文本中构建气候变化。调查结果表明，在议程设置方面，气候变化几乎没有出现，尤其是在广泛阅读的小报中；关于气候变化的界定，所研究的媒体并未将气候变化界定为热浪背后的根本原因。