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Egg-Timer: Climate Change and Socioeconomic Outcomes Location: D-112 Session Chair: Jakob Hans Wedemeyer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research | |
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Which climate impacts are seen: Media salience, economic ties and public response 1: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany; 2: Institute of Physics, Potsdam University, Germany; 3: Technical University Berlin, Germany Climate change is intensifying extreme weather worldwide, and public awareness as well as societal responses depend on if and how these impacts are communicated. Yet, quantitative evidence on the media salience of climate impacts remains limited. Here, we systematically investigate which factors shape the media salience of climate impacts abroad using a machine learning–based analysis that quantifies the relative importance of competing drivers. We compile a dataset linking three decades of coverage in nine major German newspapers to more than 8,800 climate impacts across 221 countries. Media salience is highly unequal: impacts in countries economically or socially connected to Germany receive disproportionately more coverage. Higher reported financial damage is associated with higher media salience, privileging wealthier countries, where damages are most costly. In addition, impacts with high casualty numbers and those affecting major German export destinations receive particularly high media salience. In a second step, we investigate how media salience is associated with emergency aid: Panel regressions with fixed effects show that higher salience is related with elevated likelihood that Germans express donation interest, particularly for low income countries. | |