“…In Europe, UK press have shifted focus toward potential solutions for limiting carbon emissions (Nerlich, Forsyth, & Clarke, 2012), while German press have created an impending sense of catastrophe by translating scientific hypotheses into facts (Weingart, Engels, & Pansegrau, 2000). Swedish media similarly underplay uncertainty as part of a conscious or unconscious effort to maintain demand for collective climate action (Olausson, 2009). These different media portrayals of climate (un)certainty are steeped in historically contingent spaces of ideology, culture, and politics, where various actors and institutions battle to shape public understanding and engagement.…”