Changing Climates: Discourses around climate change in the British and Brazilian news media

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1 Changing Climates: Discourses around climate change in the British and Brazilian news media Carmen Dayrell, Tony McEnery, John Urry

2 Why Brazil? Britain Brazil among the largest economies in the world major emitters of greenhouse gases significant measures to curb emissions major players in international debates on global warming

3 Public Opinion 100% Percentage of people who considered global warming a (very) serious problem 80% 60% 40% Brazil Britain 20% 0% Source: PEW (2009, 2010) 3

4 Public Opinion Percentage of people who regard environmental problems as a major global threat 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% Brazil Britain Climate change Source : PEW (2007, 2013) International financial instability US power and influence North Korea s nuclear program Iran s nuclear program Islamic extremist groups 4

5 Dayrell and Urry (2015) 5

6 OBJECTIVES 1. What concerns about global warming are revealed through talk and text in Brazil and Britain? 2. How has climate change has been framed within large data sets in major newspapers in Brazil and Britain in the past decade ( )? 3. Does the Brazilian data show high levels of concern about climate change? Does the data explain how and why Brazilians are so concerned with climate change? 4. To what degree are the three main frameworks for responding to climate change, catastrophism, gradualism and scepticism, revealed in this corpus? 5. What kinds of social practices do people discuss in relation to the causes and ways to mitigate climate change? 6

7 Brazilian Newspapers 19,268 texts (10.9 Million words) Broadsheet papers Folha de São Paulo O Globo Estado de São Paulo Jornal da Tarde Gazeta do Povo Zero Hora Diário Catarinense Pioneiro Estado de Minas Correio Braziliense Diário de Pernambuco Correio 7

8 British Newspapers 85,925 texts (61.8 Million words) The Times The Guardian The Sunday Times The Observer Broadsheet The Daily Telegraph The Independent The Herald The Sunday Telegraph Independent on Sunday Sunday Herald The Scotsman Scotland on Sunday 8

9 Query words/phrases (Gabrielatos 2007) British Newspapers climate change global warming greenhouse gas(es) carbon emissions carbon reduction carbon cuts greenhouse initiative carbon trading renewable(s) Brazilian Newspapers mudança(s) climática(s), mudança(s) do clima aquecimento global gases-estufa, gases de/do efeito estufa emissões de carbono, emissões de CO 2, emissões/emissão de dióxido de carbono redução das emissões, reduzir (as) emissões emissões globais IPCC UNFCCC Conferência/Convenção do Clima Protocolo de Kyoto/Kioto/Quioto temperatura global 9

10 Corpus Linguistics Methods Keyword analysis words which are unusually frequent, or infrequent, in one corpus compared to another corpus Collocational Analysis surrounding context of a given word Closer reading of concordance lines 10

11 Top Keywords in British Newspapers in 2007 climate pound carbon emission warming say mr energy Blair change global 11

12 Mentions of the IPCC in 2007 Occurrences of IPCC in 2007 British Newspapers Brazilian Newspapers % of texts containing IPCC 2% 17% 12

13 Mentions of the IPCC in 2007 Occurrences of IPCC in 2007 British Newspapers Brazilian Newspapers % of texts containing IPCC 2% 17% Frequency per 100,000 words

14 Brazilian newspapers frequently discuss the position of developed and developing countries emerging poor wealthy country industrialized developed developing 14

15 What do Brazilian newspapers say about developed countries? 15

16 Both should take action O fato é que, hoje, 50% das emissões se originam em países em desenvolvimento. Mesmo que os países industrializados reduzissem a zero suas emissões, o problema não seria resolvido. Estado de São Paulo - 20 April 2009 The fact is that, today, 50% of all emissions come from developing countries. Even if industrialized countries reduce their emissions to zero, the problem would not be solved. 16

17 Brazilians opinion Which countries are to blame for global warming? rich countries both poor countries Don t know/ Refuse to answer 6% 34% 53% Source: CNI-IBOPE (2012) 7% 17

18 Brazilians opinion Which countries should take action to fight global warming? both equally both should work together but rich countries should do more rich countries only Don t know/ Refuse to answer 11% 6% 28% 55% Source: CNI-IBOPE (2012) 18

19 Consequences of Climate Change are frequently discussed in Brazilian newspapers Melting of the Greenland and Antarctic icefields Artic and ice co-occurring with melt, melting, ocean 19

20 Artic icefields are melting Modelos climáticos indicam que o gelo no Ártico pode desaparecer completamente no verão a partir do meio do século por causa do aquecimento global. Folha de São Paulo - 22 Agosto 2007 Climate models indicate that the Artic ice may disappear completely in the summer from 2050 onwards, due to global warming. 20

21 Consequences of Climate Change are frequently discussed in Brazilian newspapers Melting of the Greenland and Antarctic icefields Artic and ice co-occurring with melt, melting, ocean Impact of ecosystems and biodiversity ecosystem and biodiversity co-occurring with loss, impact Increased frequency of natural disasters hurricane, tsunami, even earthquake co-occurring with more, frequent, strong 21

22 Consequences of Climate Change are frequently discussed in Brazilian newspapers A sequência não é boa. Dilúvio no Brasil. Terremoto no Haiti. Calor de 8 C no Ártico. Nevasca nos Estados Unidos. Enchente em Buenos Aires. Tempestade na França. Outro terremoto, no Chile. English translation: The sequence is not good. Floods in Brazil. Earthquake in Haiti. Temperature around 8 C in the Artic. Blizzard in the United States. Flood in Buenos Aires. Storm in France. Another earthquake in Chile. Estado de São Paulo, 7 March

23 Brazilians' discourse as to the urgency of the problem (CNI-IBOPE 2012) 23

24 Britain

25 Energy in British newspapers Keywords energy electricity nuclear renewable renewables turbine offshore wind onshore farm solar fracking shale gas 25

26 Wind is why are these wind turbine companies being treated differently? senting Scottish wind farm companies and the SNP a eyond 2020 meant wind industry companies did not h overnment to the wind generating companies for hav have is onshore wind, which has problems of its o threat from huge wind turbines and electricity py largest offshore wind farms will be built in the T a major move into offshore wind manufacturing that have criticised wind power to speak at our Onshor anomaly arising from the system for wind energy. expensive and intermittent offshore wind sources represents a big gamble we need energy and wind farms but I cannot see the logic of this

27 Wind is why are these wind turbine companies being treated differently? senting Scottish wind farm companies and the SNP a eyond 2020 meant wind industry companies did not h overnment to the wind generating companies for hav have is onshore wind, which has problems of its o threat from huge wind turbines and electricity py largest offshore wind farms will be built in the T a major move into offshore wind manufacturing that have criticised wind power to speak at our Onshor anomaly arising from the system for wind energy. expensive and intermittent offshore wind sources represents a big gamble we need energy and wind farms but I cannot see the logic of this

28 in British newspapers Keywords bn pound GBP soar crunch recession deficit spending subsidy treasury tariff freeze levy 28

29 Energy in Brazil

30 Energy in Brazilian newspapers Keywords Translation energético energy renovável renewable hidrelétrico hydropower hídrico hydric MW MW reservatório reservoir eólico wind (power) biomassa biomass carvão coal térmico thermal termeelétrico thermoeletric

31 Electricity generation in Brazil Source: ABEE (Sep 2015)

32 Next Steps 32

33 British Tabloids 21,072 texts (9.8 Million words) Tabloids The Express The Daily Mail The Sun The Daily Mirror The Daily Star The Daily Record The Sunday Express Mail on Sunday Sunday Sun Sunday Mirror Daily Star Sunday Sunday Mail 33

34 Germany Italy 34

35 Thank you! Obrigada! 35

36 References BAKER, P., C. GABRIELATOS, T. MCENERY (2013) Discourse analysis and media attitudes: the representation of Islam in the British press. Cambridge University Press. BAKER, P. and E. LEVON (2015) Picking the right cherries? A comparison of corpusbased and qualitative analyses of news articles about masculinity. Discourse & Communication 9(2): DAYRELL, C. and J. URRY (2013) Changing Climate and Society. The Surprising Case of Brazil. CASS Working paper DAYRELL, C. and J. Urry (2015) Mediating climate politics: The surprising case of Brazil. European Journal of Social Theory, Special Issue on Climate Change, 3 (18): CNI-IBOPE (2012) Pesquisa CNI-Ibope. Retratos da sociedade brasileira: Meio ambiente. Available at: e.pdf (accessed 04 July 2014). PEW (2007) 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Report. Global unease with major world powers. Rising environmental concern in 47-nation survey. Available at: PEW (2013) Climate change and financial instability seen as top global threats. Survey report. Available at: URRY J. (2011) Climate Change and Society. Cambridge: Polity Press. 36