(Now posted here as a "Climate Idea") I have sent below request to the Nordvision partnership for Public Service Media in the Nordic region as well as to the individual Nordic public TV stations: THE CLIMATE CRISIS AT OUR DOORSTEP We have experienced the Climate crisis knocking at our door throughout summer, with a large number of extreme weather events unfolding including the North American “heat-dome” that spread all up to Canada, where national temperature record of 49.6 degrees Celsius was set in the town of Lytton a few days before it burned down. Followed by heatwave in Lapland with highest temperature measured in more than one hundred years. Also, the flooding’s in China followed by the dramatic flooding’s in Germany and Belgium. And now extreme heatwave and fires in Turkey and Greece. THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS A SCIENTIFIC FACT The new IPCC report that has just been published concludes unequivocal that the climate changes are caused by human activities. The average temperature on earth has already increased by 1.1 degrees Celsius since 1850-1900. And the average temperature is quickly on track to surpass the 1.5 degrees Celsius ambition from the Paris Agreement. 19 of the warmest years on earth, in recent time, are all recorded after year 2000. TV MEDIA'S ROLE IN THE COVERAGE OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS - IRISH AND BRITISH FRONTRUNNERS This spring British Sky News launched serious daily coverage of the Climate crisis in “The daily climate show”. Now Irish national TV is following suit with a general upgrade of their climate coverage. Jon Williams – Managing Director RTÉ news explains: “Public service journalism means RTÉ News has a responsibility to lead the conversation about the climate crisis, and the impact it is having. From September, every journalist in RTÉ News will take part in a workshop looking at climate science, and the reporting of it.” “There's been criticism of RTÉ News for failing to connect recent events to climate change. However, it's not just many journalists who've been taken aback. Many scientists have also been shocked at the dramatic change in the frequency with which extreme weather events occur.” CASE FOR THE NORDIC TV MEDIA One thing is for sure – through the 20’ties we will all feel more of the effects from the Climate crisis; and the debate on what can be done will intensify in all of the worlds countries. It is also unlikely to imagine all of the worlds TV stations not having initiated recurring Climate crisis coverage when we reach the last part of this decade. With such a premise, then why wait ?..... why not accelerate in front while it is still possible to become among the first stations – just like British Sky News, that was perhaps the first station that made it. The Nordic TV stations should up their game covering the Climate crisis already this late summer. There is not long before the important Cop26 in Glasgow this autumn The Nordic region is a world leading region in several aspects – we also have numerous frontrunners when it comes to climate. Nordic media, and especially the TV media has a great responsibility and opportunity to take centre stage on coverage of the Climate crisis. NORDIC TV MEDIA TO ENGAGE IN TEAMWORK It would be natural for the Nordic TV medias to engage in a teamwork on covering the climate crisis. The teamwork could cover everything from co-productions, shared education program for journalists, sharing of interviews with world leading climate specialists and scientists as well as shared coverage of the upcoming Cop26 in Glasgow. With teamwork, Nordic TV has the potential to deliver world leading coverage of the Climate crisis ! --------O--------- APPENDIX NINETEEN OF THE WARMEST YEARS HAVE OCCURED SINCE 2000 “Nineteen of the warmest years have occurred since 2000, with the exception of 1998. The year 2020 tied with 2016 for the warmest year on record since record-keeping began in 1880” (source: NASA/GISS). https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/ CLIMATE ATTRIBUTION SCIENCE - TO WHAT EXTENT HAS EXTREME WEATHER BEEN INFLUENCED BY CLIMATE CHANGE ”Western North American extreme heat virtually impossible without human-caused climate change”, July 7, 2021, World Weather Attribution initiative https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-american-extreme-heat-virtually-impossible-without-human-caused-climate-change/ Whenever an extreme weather or climate-related event occurs, the media and decision-makers ask the question to what extent it is influenced by climate change. The World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative, a collaboration between climate scientists at the University of Oxford in the UK, KNMI in the Netherlands, IPSL/LSCE in France, and Princeton University and NCAR in the US, ETH Zurich in Switzerland and others https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/about/ JON WILLIAMS - MANAGING DIRECTOR RTÉ NEWS FROM IRISH NATIONAL TV RTÉ EXPLAINS ABOUT THE STATIONS NEW APPROACH TO COVERING THE CLIMATE CRISIS https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2021/0726/1237408-climate-change/ LINK TO SKYNEW'S "THE DAILY CLIMATE SHOW" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG8IrydigQfdgcLHjRy2W-R5GPYStPF6L