In December, the Danish capital will host COP15, the fifteenth annual Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
How is the Danish press covering climate, on the road to Copenhagen?
Whether you're an activist, educator, organizer, new to climate, or a total wonk, join me below the fold to find out stuff I'll guarantee* you didn't already know.
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Consider how the websites of the top three Danish papers are organized, Berlingske Tidene, Politiken, and Jyllands Posten.
Take a look at Berlingske Tidene, the world's ninth oldest newspaper. Where is climate--"KLIMA"--in its ontology?
That's right. Climate. Klima. Right up there at the top level, with News, Business, Sports, and Culture.
Consider Politiken. Can you spot Klima?
Yup. Climate is in the second level menu, under the top-level heading, News, alongside Denmark, Politics, International, Business, and Science.
And at Jyllands Posten?
Climate is a third level menu, sharing status with Crime, Traffc and Weather, and Copenhagen, under the second-level heading Domestic, under the top-level heading News.
Notice how climate is not just structurally conceived of, and presented as, a high level issue, it's specifically not classified as an environmental issue.
In Part 2, we'll look at how the Danish government is having second thoughts re funding its most notorious climate contrarian, and how these Danish papers are handling that issue.
By the way, each paper has a print circulation of a bit more than 100,000 copies. Denmark's population is around 5.5 million people. Relatively speaking, a Danish 100,000+ circulation is about three times as high as that of a U.S. paper, such as the top-ranked USA Today, that has a circulation of about 2 million.