Climate Media Framing & Narrative Tracker (1984

40-Year Media Frame Stream & Scientific Consensus Gap

Solid filled streams represent media framing volume (% share). Green dashed line represents IPCC Scientific Consensus level.

Scrub Timeline Focus Year:

1998

Archived Headline Evidence Focus: 1998

Inspect representative news articles from the selected year. Click a headline to highlight its frame in the timeline above.

Counterfactual Newsroom Simulator Interactive Scenario

Adjust editorial framing bias levers to test how news coverage shifts would have impacted projected public scientific consensus drift over 40 years.

"Both-Sidesism" / False Balance Reduction 0% Shift

Replaces artificial balance with weight-of-evidence scientific consensus coverage.

Activist Extremism vs Danger Focus Default Framing

Shifts headline focus from protest disruption toward climate risk urgency.

Actual Peak Public Consensus Lag: 54.2% Gap (1997)

Simulated Projected Consensus Lag: 54.2% Gap

Consensus Acceleration Gain: 0 Years Faster