Cimate change disproportionately affects populations in the Global South. News media play a pivotal role in mobilizing citizens around issues of climate change. In this paper, we investigate whether this type of climate vulnerability affects how extreme weather events are reported on in the news media at a granular level. We examine how both national and local news media cover localized climate vulnerability, perhaps differentially so. We then analyze a factor that moderates the relationship between climate vulnerability and climate reporting: the presence of fossil fuels in a community. We hypothesize and test whether carbon communities decrease the mobilizing force of ecological shocks on climate reporting. To show this, we extend our global database that quantifies various dimensions of climate vulnerability and links that to mobilization patterns. We collect municipal-level news media data from GDELT in Mexico, Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia between 2019 and 2024. Our research contributes to a better understanding of the role of climate vulnerability in citizen mobilization around climate change.