ABSTRACT
One morning in 2007, in a conference room packed with producers, reporters and department heads of a 24-hour news channel, I recall an exasperated senior editor challenging anyone to bring him ‘three people’ outside that room who knew anything more about climate change than the fact that it produced some sort of warming. The big news story in question, jostling with politics, sports and business developments, was the release of the final working group report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The editor implied that most Indians, save a small minority, were neither interested in nor informed about the nuances of climate science and its governing politics. Its coverage therefore, could be ‘cut down to size’.
