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Only twelve point eight percent of two hundred fifty popular fictional films released between 2013 and 2022 passed the first part of the Climate Reality Check. This check requires that climate change exists within a narrative and that at least one character knows it is happening.
An Inconvenient Truth released in 2006 covered former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign related to raising awareness about global warming. Davis Guggenheim directed this American documentary film which became a major cultural touchstone for climate communication.
Bill McKibben published The End of Nature in 1989 as the first book on climate change written for a general audience. Elizabeth Kolbert won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2015 for The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History explaining the concept of the Holocene extinction.
The New York Times found one hundred ninety-two references to climate change in English-language songs entering Billboard charts between 1999 and 2019. Around half of those eighty-seven songs appeared between 2015 and 2019 indicating a surge in musical engagement with environmental topics.
Late-night television hosts Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, James Corden, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Fallon devoted portions of their shows to climate change material on the 22nd of September 2021.