Christian Hunt has a good rant on the Carbon Brief blog. Why do so many climate-related stories fall back onto the same old themes for photos — the polar bear on a melting floe, the cracked soil in a drought-stricken land? "There are images which get used because they push people's buttons, but don't really help unpack a topic. Polar bears on ice, burning planets — they're cliches that you can't really rely on to inform and explain." He includes nine top offenders.
