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Climate scientists and journalists have neither the same temporality nor the same vocabulary. On the scientific side, climate research is not new. In 1856, Eunice Newton Foote, an amateur scientist and famous suffragette (to name one of the many women made invisible by men), observed that " an atmosphere of this gas (...) would give our " , and the first major scientific studies on global warming date back more than forty years. Time Magazine cover, April 2006 Cover of Time Magazine, April 2006 Today, when numbers move out of the abstract and climate reality becomes tangible, climate ceases to be a scientific issue.


The way the media reports on climate change has even homeowner database become a very active and dynamic field of academic study covering how often the media covers the change, how this coverage is presented and how it varies from country to country. The Climate Feedback Platform even fact-checks the information disseminated in the media . Since climate affects all elements of our society, it is moving beyond secondary sections and now requires a reorganization of newsrooms, well described by Wolfgang Blau, co-founder of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, as "the greatest reconstruction story since World War II" , and which begins with the training of journalists.


How can we give journalists, and audiences, the means to understand? Is impartiality possible in the face of fake news amplified by social networks? Should we give climate skeptics a voice on TV sets? Why are we vulnerable to this topic? Climate is perhaps one of the topics that generates the most false information on social networks, denying the extent of current global warming, its implications or its human origin. Less than a denial (as is the case in the United States), fake news on climate in France often tends to relativize current climate change or to diminish the extent of the changes necessary to address the climate crisis.