Extreme weather experiences and climate change beliefs in China: An econometric analysis

Dai, Jing; Kesternich, Martin; Löschel, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.05.001

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“…In line with a great deal of studies exploring the impact of personal experience with natural hazards on related risk perceptions and climate change beliefs (e. g. Dai et al, 2015;Zaalberg et al, 2009), we find that the experience of adverse natural events and, even more pronounced, suffering from damages has a strong bearing on individual risk perceptions. Similarly positive correlations between (damage) experience and individual risk perceptions of extreme weather events are identified for Germany by Menny et al (2011), Thieken et al (2007, and Weber (2006), as well as by Keller et al (2006), and Siegrist and Gutscher (2006) for Switzerland.…”

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confidence: 49%

Risk Perception of Climate Change: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Frondel

Simora

Sommer

2017

Ecological Economics

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 49%

Risk Perception of Climate Change: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Frondel

Simora

Sommer

2017

Ecological Economics

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“…Many papers that consider subjective experience focus on experience with extreme events or disasters, especially flooding [24,47,48,[52][53][54], but also tropical cyclones, drought, wildfire, and other changes [47,49]. Such differences are non-trivial, as each event carries very different risks, is associated with different economic costs, and affects individuals and communities in very different ways.…”

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“…Yet, only a handful of papers covered by this review include fixed or random effects at any level, including regional [20,33,46,68], state [7,9,39,91], or geographies below the state level (e.g. county, city, weather station) [9,22,36,49,65,76,77,79].…”

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How will climate change shape climate opinion?

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Marlon

Mildenberger

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As climate change intensifies, global publics will experience more unusual weather and extreme weather events. How will individual experiences with these weather trends shape climate change beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors? In this article, we review 73 papers that have studied the relationship between climate change experiences and public opinion. Overall, we find mixed evidence that weather shapes climate opinions. Although there is some support for a weak effect of local temperature and extreme weather events on climate opinion, the heterogeneity of independent variables, dependent variables, study populations, and research designs complicate systematic comparison. To advance research on this critical topic, we suggest that future studies pay careful attention to differences between self-reported and objective weather data, causal identification, and the presence of spatial autocorrelation in weather and climate data. Refining research designs and methods in future studies will help us understand the discrepancies in results, and allow better detection of effects, which have important practical implications for climate communication. As the global population increasingly experiences weather conditions outside the range of historical experience, researchers, communicators, and policymakers need to understand how these experiences shape-and are shaped by-public opinions and behaviors.

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“…Many studies have used ambiguous or loosely-defined constructs or left participants to judge for themselves what might constitute 'experience' of extreme weather (e.g. Dai et al 2015;Rudman et al 2013;Spence et al 2011;Taylor et al 2014a;van der Linden 2014;Lujala et al 2015;Whitmarsh 2008). Other studies have asked participants to state whether or not they have personally experienced global warming (e.g.…”

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Experience of extreme weather affects climate change mitigation and adaptation responses

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The winter of 2013/2014 saw a series of severe storms hit the UK, leading to widespread flooding, a major emergency response and extensive media exposure. Previous research indicates that experiencing extreme weather events has the potential to heighten engagement with climate change, however the process by which this occurs remains largely unknown, and establishing a clear causal relationship from experience to perceptions is methodologically challenging. The UK winter flooding offered a natural experiment to examine this question in detail. We compare individuals personally affected by flooding (n = 162) to a nationally representative sample (n = 975). We show that direct experience of flooding leads to an overall increased salience of climate change, pronounced emotional responses and greater perceived personal vulnerability and risk perceptions. We also present the first evidence that direct flooding experience can give rise to behavioural intentions beyond individual sustainability actions, including support for mitigation policies, and personal climate adaptation in matters unrelated to the direct experience.

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Extreme weather experiences and climate change beliefs in China: An econometric analysis

Cited by 61 publications

References 40 publications

Risk Perception of Climate Change: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Risk Perception of Climate Change: Empirical Evidence for Germany

How will climate change shape climate opinion?

Experience of extreme weather affects climate change mitigation and adaptation responses

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