Nearly three in four heatwave newspaper stories failed to mention climate crisis

MORE than seven in 10 mainstream newspaper stories about last month’s record-breaking heatwave failed to mention the climate crisis, analysis has found. Nearly 2,500 articles about the extreme heat appeared in the Express, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Mail, Mirror, Sun, Telegraph and Times between June 22 and 28. But 72 per cent of them left out any mention of global heating or the climate, according to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit’s analysis (ECIU), with fewer than one…