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'Climate Crisis': The Media's New Catchphrase for Climate Change

CNN held its “climate crisis” town-hall event Wednesday night, offering leading Democratic presidential contenders a chance to lay out their environmental prescriptions. CNN’s framing of the topic as a “crisis” reflects a slow but steady shift in how the press now describes climate change, but this changing vocabulary has yet to be embraced by the public.

The article received considerable attention, including a tweet by Andrew Revkin.

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