Talking about Climate Change and Global Warming

Abstract

The increasing prevalence of social networks provides researchers greater opportunities to evaluate and assess changes in public opinion and public sentiment towards issues of social consequence. Using trend and sentiment analysis is one method whereby researchers can identify changes in public perception that can be used to enhance the development of a social consciousness towards a specific public interest. The following study assessed Relative search volume (RSV) patterns for global warming (GW) and Climate change (CC) to determine public knowledge and awareness of these terms. In conjunction with this, the researchers looked at the sentiment connected to these terms in social media networks. It was found that there was a relationship between the awareness of the information and the amount of publicity generated around the terminology. Furthermore, the primary driver for the increase in awareness was an increase in publicity in either a positive or a negative light. Sentiment analysis further confirmed that the primary emotive connections to the words were derived from the original context in which the word was framed. Thus having awareness or knowledge of a topic is strongly related to its public exposure in the media, and the emotional context of this relationship is dependent on the context in which the relationship was originally established. This has value in fields like conservation, law enforcement, or other fields where the practice can and often does have two very strong emotive responses based on the context of the problems being examined.

Adversity of prolonged extreme cold exposure among adult clients diagnosed with coronary artery diseases: a primer for recommending community health nursing intervention

“…In addition, poor shelter and insufficient money to buy thick clothing due to poverty were emphasized; likewise, old age (Davídkovová et al, 2014;Xie et al, 2013) due to lower immune system or presence of degenerative diseases like arthritis was exemplified. The informants also knew that climate change contributes to the atmospheric condition resulting in health problems in the community (Lineman et al, 2015;Schuldt & Roh, 2014;Singh & Purohit, 2014;Zheng et al, 2012), in the case of CAD.…”

“…Climate change is the variation in weather pattern (high and low temperature in long period of time) in a specific region, relatively used to describe and define the history of human civilization usually featured through social network system and Internet enhanced with the advancement of modern technology which effectively increases the general public awareness (Lineman, Yuno, Ji, & Gea‐Jae, ; Samson, Berteaux, McGill, & Humphries, ; Vardoulakis et al., ).…”

“…describe and define the history of human civilization usually featured through social network system and Internet enhanced with the advancement of modern technology which effectively increases the general public awareness (Lineman, Yuno, Ji, & Gea-Jae, 2015;Samson, Berteaux, McGill, & Humphries, 2011;Vardoulakis et al, 2014).…”

“…Nowadays, climate change is a major scientific issue and in the future decades because of its severe adverse effect disturbing the smooth flow of socioeconomic, industrial and agricultural aspect (Byravan & Rajan, 2015;Ryall, 2014;Singh & Purohit, 2014;Wergen, Hense, & Krug, 2014). It increases the global temperature in longterm trend dramatically threatens the human's well-being particularly people's livelihood, safety and security, likewise a danger to animals, species and to the health of global ecosystem (Bradley et al, 2012;Lineman et al, 2015;Schuldt & Roh, 2014;Zheng, Ding, Hao, & Ge, 2012). Hamilton, Hartter, Lemcke-Stampone, Moore, and Safford (2015) mainly expressed that climate change has a great impact to every individual according to age, sex and education making it as a vital global problem to look forward for a critical solution.…”

Antibiotic resistance has a language problem

“…A 2015 study 5 of word use in social-media networks, for instance, indicated that the terms 'climate change' and 'global warming' have differing effects on knowledge and awareness. Likewise, a 2013 survey 6 suggested that 'global warming' is more likely than 'climate change' to prompt Americans to support large and small-scale US efforts to address the problem -presumably because the phrase imparts a greater sense of personal threat.…”