COVID and Climate: Similarities and differences

Grundmann, Reiner

doi:10.1002/wcc.737

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“…In contrast to measures on the long-term problem of climate change, responses to the Covid-19 pandemic tended to be short-term; the two issues thus vary enormously in terms of temporality (Grundmann, 2021). However, initial content analyses have revealed a high degree of politicisation in news media coverage of Covid-19, which is similar to that of climate change (Hart et al, 2020).…”

Section: Comparing Climate Change and Covid-19mentioning

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“…For decades, scientists have "sounded the alarm about global warming" (Weingart et al, 2000, p. 261). Although political actors have known of the threat for a long time, only gradual efforts have been made, and political actions have often been postponed (Grundmann, 2021). These measures, which are perceived as insufficient for coping with climate change, have created frustration among climate scientists (Pidgeon & Fischhoff, 2011).…”

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“You Can Do Better Than That!”: Tweeting Scientists Addressing Politics on Climate Change and Covid-19

Biermann

Peters

Taddicken

2023

MaC

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Climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic are global challenges in which scientists play a crucial role, and immediate political actions are necessary. However, in contrast to climate change, strong governmental actions have been taken during the pandemic. While climate change has been on the public agenda for several decades, the pandemic is a rather new issue. In such cases, social media offer scientists the potential to disseminate scientific results to the public and express calls to action and their personal views towards politics. Thus far, little is known about the extent to which scientists make use of this option. In this study, we investigated the similarities and differences between visible German climate experts and visible German Covid-19 experts regarding advocacy and assessments of policies and political actors on Twitter. We conducted a manual content analysis of tweets (N = 5,915) from 2021 of the most visible climate experts (N = 5) and the most visible Covid-19 experts (N = 5). The results show that climate experts addressed politics more often than Covid-19 experts in their tweets. The selected climate experts more often expressed negative evaluations, the degradation of competence and blaming. The Covid-19 experts, however, made more political calls for action. We assume that an issue’s history and context will affect scientists’ public assessments of politics. Our comparative study provides insight into the interrelations between science and politics in digital communication environments and elucidates visible scientists’ communication behaviours towards different socio-scientific issues.

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Section: Comparing Climate Change and Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

“You Can Do Better Than That!”: Tweeting Scientists Addressing Politics on Climate Change and Covid-19

Biermann

Peters

Taddicken

2023

MaC

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“…At the end of 2019, news and social media were overwhelmed with news of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) [9]. Interestingly, many parallels and differences have emerged between the climate change emergency and the pandemic [10][11][12]. Although media coverage of climate change has a history of half a century, politicians still focus on short-term economic growth, and people in developed countries are continuing their lifestyles as usual.…”

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Flames and Viruses: Australian and Hungarian Media Representation of the Australian Bushfires and the COVID-19 Pandemic, A Case Study

Hafenscher

Jankó

2022

Climate

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This study addresses the difference in media coverage of the Australian bushfires and the pandemic, using an Australian and a Hungarian news site. After a frame analysis of text and imagery, a narration analysis was conducted. Our results provided evidence that crises were covered in different ways. For a distant news portal, it was an obvious option to use the bushfires in order to visualize climate change. In contrast, the bushfire–climate link has been a politicized subject in Australia for decades; hence, the exceptional bushfire season was also unable to get the issue on the agenda. Although the Australian news media in our sample strived to portray a crisis under control, when compared to the pandemic, it was not so effective. Therefore, localization is a major challenge for effective climate communication, where lessons from the pandemic, using more economic and social frames, could be helpful.

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Climate change worry in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from two large-scale European surveys

Stefkovics,

Ágoston,

Bukovenszki

et al. 2024

Climate Risk Management

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COVID and Climate: Similarities and differences

Cited by 5 publications

References 44 publications

“You Can Do Better Than That!”: Tweeting Scientists Addressing Politics on Climate Change and Covid-19

“You Can Do Better Than That!”: Tweeting Scientists Addressing Politics on Climate Change and Covid-19

Flames and Viruses: Australian and Hungarian Media Representation of the Australian Bushfires and the COVID-19 Pandemic, A Case Study

Climate change worry in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from two large-scale European surveys

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