Major News Outlets Pledge to Begin Calling ‘Climate Change’ a ‘Climate Emergency’ A number of major news organizations worldwide, ranging from Scientific American and The Columbia Journalism Review to The Guardian and Al Jazeera, have signed a pledge to begin referring to “climate change” as a “climate emergency” in their reporting. “Scientific American has agreed with major news outlets worldwide to start using the term ‘climate emergency’ in its coverage of climate change,” the publication announced Monday in a tweet to its 3.9 million followers touting “the impact we hope it can have throughout the media landscape. . .” https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/craig-bannister/2021/04/13/major-news-outlets-pledge-begin-calling-climate-change