President Trump calls climate change a “hoax.” The Oxford English Dictionary defines a “hoax” as “deceiving or taking in by inducing to believe an amusing or mischievous fabrication or fiction.” As example, the OED cites …
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Analyzing Climate Change Language
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Climate Change and Critical Media Literacy
Last year was the hottest year on record, and yet the major TV networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX News) spent 66% less time covering climate change in 2016 than they did in 2015, according …
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How Serious is Global Warming?
For most Americans, including most English teachers, the impact of climate change has not yet really sunk in. The corporate media is not informing us about the problem. Yet, what we do in the next …
