Scepticism in a changing climate: A cross-national study

Tranter, Bruce; Booth, Kate

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.05.003

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“…According to [48], the public is more likely to notice weather extremes than long-term incremental changes in mean climate variables. Newspapers have been criticized for not being able to grasp objective information, and for reflecting political tendencies, biases, context, and values as well as reported data [41,47,49]. However, it is important to use newspaper articles in studies dealing with climate change because they provide information on the impact of climate change in various fields across the whole of society at once.…”

Section: Media Coverage Of Climate Change Issuesmentioning

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A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

Kang

Park

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:The risks caused by climate change are worsening worldwide, and it is recognized that national and regional responses to climate change are essential. This study therefore explores climate change risks that have been recognized as fatal to people and the environment by analyzing multi-influence factors that appear in multiple risk indicators. The climate change risks in this study are based on 73 existing risk indicators; the frame data for multi-influence risk factors are based on 3098 newspaper articles published over 24 years on the impact of climate change in South Korea. The main outcomes for this study were finding climate change risk trend from newspaper articles regarding climate change impacts through text-mining, and figuring out the multi-risk indicators that are likely to occur at the same time with other risk indicators using network analysis. From the network analysis, we found that the major risk indicators have a high degree of interrelationship among risk indicators, including "increase in mortality rate from disaster", "increase in flood areas due to coastal flooding", and "destruction of repair facilities due to flooding (river bank, etc.)". The main risk indicators derived from this study can therefore be used as a reasonable standard when identifying the main risks posed by climate change and defining future adaptation planning priorities.

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Section: Media Coverage Of Climate Change Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The overall risk frequency of typhoons and heavy rains was high, not only in relation to economic loss, but also in relation to casualties and injury. In addition to these, diseases caused by heat waves (49) and injuries caused by cold waves (41) were also outliers, compared to other risk patterns. …”

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A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

Kang

Park

2018

Sustainability

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Section: Communicating the Scientific Consensus On Climate Changementioning

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“…Lewandowsky, Gignac, and Vaughan 2012;Myers et al 2015;van der Linden et al 2015). Using short, simple messages, paired with a pie chart showing scientific consensus, is the most persuasive approach (van der Linden et al 2014). However, Kahan (2015) warns that communicating climate consensus can insult skeptics by indirectly suggesting they may be unintelligent for disagreeing with a majority of scientists and lead to greater polarization on the topic.…”

Section: Communicating the Scientific Consensus On Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In an analysis of 35 US national, state, or regional surveys conducted between 2010-2015, 10-15 percent of respondents did not believe that climate change was occurring at all, while 30-40 percent believed it is due to natural causes . Skepticism is also prevalent in other developed nations, including Australia and Norway (Tranter and Booth 2015).…”

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Responding to Climate Change Skepticism and the Ideological Divide

Santos¹,

Feygina²

2017

Michigan Journal of Sustainability

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Climate change is an increasingly politicized issue in the United States, with many members of the American public, especially those who identify as politically conservative, skeptical about this dangerous phenomenon. A host of social and psychological processes have been investigated in an attempt to understand skepticism and resistance to responding to the threat of climate change, including motivated reasoning, system justification theory, social dominance orientation, belief in a just world, the cultural cognition thesis, and solution aversion. In this article, we review recent research into these processes and their implications for understanding the political divide in responding to climate change. We also highlight efforts to test communications interventions aimed at ameliorating these processes underlying climate change skepticism, including framing and scientific consensus. This literature review may be informative for climate change focused communicators, policymakers, practitioners, and academics who directly or indirectly interact with the 6

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Do Australians trust scientists? It depends on the ‘science’

Tranter

2023

Aust J Social Issues

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Trust in science and scientists underlies public support for social and environmental issues, from taking action on climate change to preventing the spread of viruses. Nationally representative Australian survey data show that public trust in university research is higher than that conducted in other institutions. As sources of information, public trust in scientists is considered across potentially polarising and relatively uncontroversial fields of science, with trust varying considerably according to the type of science examined. Public trust is highest in vaccine science and weather forecasting, and lowest for GM crop science, while climate science and forest management fall in between. Social and political background variables are important correlates of trust in science. Younger, tertiary educated, politically progressive Australians are most trusting. Greens party identifiers and environmentalists are more likely than other respondents to trust all types of science examined here—including GM crop science—while institutional trust is positively associated with trust in scientists.

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Scepticism in a changing climate: A cross-national study

Cited by 262 publications

References 60 publications

A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

Responding to Climate Change Skepticism and the Ideological Divide

Do Australians trust scientists? It depends on the ‘science’

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