Explaining Media and Congressional Attention to Global Climate
... The third factor that may grab policy elites' attention and promote the prominence of an issue is what Kingdon calls "feedback" and Jones and Baumgartner call "information feedback." Both theories, in line with the systems analysis literature (Easton 1965; Richardson 1991), maintain that in a democr ...
... The third factor that may grab policy elites' attention and promote the prominence of an issue is what Kingdon calls "feedback" and Jones and Baumgartner call "information feedback." Both theories, in line with the systems analysis literature (Easton 1965; Richardson 1991), maintain that in a democr ...
A changing climate of skepticism? The factors shaping climate
... This result indicates that the logic of balancing no longer seems to structure fundamental questions of climate change (which resonates with hypothesis 1). However, as previous results do not show a homogenous picture concerning the occurrence of balance as bias – especially with the focus on impact ...
... This result indicates that the logic of balancing no longer seems to structure fundamental questions of climate change (which resonates with hypothesis 1). However, as previous results do not show a homogenous picture concerning the occurrence of balance as bias – especially with the focus on impact ...
Global warming in the public sphere
... century, the basic physical science underlying the theory and empirical evidence for global warming was supported through wartime and post-World War II scientific enterprise to master nuclear weaponry and understand how nuclear radiation and fallout would travel throughout the atmosphere and terrestr ...
... century, the basic physical science underlying the theory and empirical evidence for global warming was supported through wartime and post-World War II scientific enterprise to master nuclear weaponry and understand how nuclear radiation and fallout would travel throughout the atmosphere and terrestr ...
Republican and Democratic Views on Climate Change
... negative correlation) to +1 (a perfect positive correlation), with 0 indicating no relationship. The increasing values of the Pearson coefficients across each row are quantitative evidence for greater party sorting over time, and they statistically validate the growing polarization visually portraye ...
... negative correlation) to +1 (a perfect positive correlation), with 0 indicating no relationship. The increasing values of the Pearson coefficients across each row are quantitative evidence for greater party sorting over time, and they statistically validate the growing polarization visually portraye ...
Americans` Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes in April 2013
... Nonetheless, a solid majority of Americans – 65 percent – say they would like at least a “little more” information about the subject. ...
... Nonetheless, a solid majority of Americans – 65 percent – say they would like at least a “little more” information about the subject. ...
Communicating the risks of global warming
... George W. Bush renounced a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant, withdrew the United States from the Kyoto Protocol negotiations, and proposed national energy legislation to increase drilling for oil and natural gas, mining for coal, and build over a thousand new fossil-fuel bur ...
... George W. Bush renounced a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant, withdrew the United States from the Kyoto Protocol negotiations, and proposed national energy legislation to increase drilling for oil and natural gas, mining for coal, and build over a thousand new fossil-fuel bur ...
The Climate Change Generation?
... American adults under the age of 35 have come of age in the decades since WKH´GLVFRYHU\µRIPDQmade climate change as a major societal problem. The oldest of this cohort was twelve in 1988, when NASA climate scientist James Hansen testified at a Senate Energy Committee hearing that global temperatu ...
... American adults under the age of 35 have come of age in the decades since WKH´GLVFRYHU\µRIPDQmade climate change as a major societal problem. The oldest of this cohort was twelve in 1988, when NASA climate scientist James Hansen testified at a Senate Energy Committee hearing that global temperatu ...
Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in
... thing”.2 As Obama began his second term in the most powerful office on planet Earth, by way of media reactions to the speech, an onlooking public citizenry saw ‘hope’ rise again for more comprehensive climate change engagement from the US. Indeed, all of this stands in stark contrast to President Ob ...
... thing”.2 As Obama began his second term in the most powerful office on planet Earth, by way of media reactions to the speech, an onlooking public citizenry saw ‘hope’ rise again for more comprehensive climate change engagement from the US. Indeed, all of this stands in stark contrast to President Ob ...
Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press
... However, on December 3, 2002, the Washington Post, citing ‘‘numerous uncertainties [that] remain about global warming’s cause and effect’’, top administration officials communicated George W. Bush’s call ‘‘for a decade of research before the government commits to anything more than voluntary measures ...
... However, on December 3, 2002, the Washington Post, citing ‘‘numerous uncertainties [that] remain about global warming’s cause and effect’’, top administration officials communicated George W. Bush’s call ‘‘for a decade of research before the government commits to anything more than voluntary measures ...
Polarized frames on “climate change” and “global warming” across
... lobbyists and conservatives (e.g., Jim Inhofe, Tony Abbott) highlight uncertainties in climate science and question the causes and consequences of climate change. However, although the US media are still debating the authenticity of scientific claims, Australian media mostly focus on how to minimize ...
... lobbyists and conservatives (e.g., Jim Inhofe, Tony Abbott) highlight uncertainties in climate science and question the causes and consequences of climate change. However, although the US media are still debating the authenticity of scientific claims, Australian media mostly focus on how to minimize ...
Apocalypse soon? Dire messages reduce belief in global warming by
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The Denial of Global Warming
... have vitiated the principal conclusions that there will be appreciable warming.”17 The devil was not in the details. It was in the main story. CO2 was a greenhouse gas. It trapped heat. So if you increased CO2, the Earth would warm up. It wasn’t quite that simple—clouds, winds, and ocean circulation ...
... have vitiated the principal conclusions that there will be appreciable warming.”17 The devil was not in the details. It was in the main story. CO2 was a greenhouse gas. It trapped heat. So if you increased CO2, the Earth would warm up. It wasn’t quite that simple—clouds, winds, and ocean circulation ...
Personal Efficacy, the Information Environment
... disagreed with the consensus that “human modification of climate is compelling.”(35) Indeed, the scientific consensus on global warming and climate change is remarkable, and is not rife with ethical controversies like stem-cell research, where scientists will line up on opposing sides to debate the ...
... disagreed with the consensus that “human modification of climate is compelling.”(35) Indeed, the scientific consensus on global warming and climate change is remarkable, and is not rife with ethical controversies like stem-cell research, where scientists will line up on opposing sides to debate the ...
Questionnaire design effects in climate change surveys
... Republicans to mind their words when discussing climate issues. In the memo, Luntz suggested that the administration should emphasize “climate change” rather than “global warming” in its communications, under the assumption that the more frightening connotations of the latter might heighten the publ ...
... Republicans to mind their words when discussing climate issues. In the memo, Luntz suggested that the administration should emphasize “climate change” rather than “global warming” in its communications, under the assumption that the more frightening connotations of the latter might heighten the publ ...
Contropedia: Case Study on Global Warming
... media is an important source informing the public understanding of science, and public opinion on climate change more specifically. We are interested to analyze what Wikipedia has to add to our understanding of the controversy and more specifically, we focus on how Wikipedians negotiate their differ ...
... media is an important source informing the public understanding of science, and public opinion on climate change more specifically. We are interested to analyze what Wikipedia has to add to our understanding of the controversy and more specifically, we focus on how Wikipedians negotiate their differ ...
Public Enemy No. 1? Understanding Media Representations of
... Indicating their recognition of the power of mass media, the group planned to measure success “by counting, among other things, the percentage of news articles that raise questions about climate science and the number of radio talk show appearances by scientists questioning the prevailing views” (Cu ...
... Indicating their recognition of the power of mass media, the group planned to measure success “by counting, among other things, the percentage of news articles that raise questions about climate science and the number of radio talk show appearances by scientists questioning the prevailing views” (Cu ...
Evaluating the effects of ideology on public understanding of climate
... and to shape public understanding of economic analysis (Stern, 2008: 1). Some researchers assert that public understanding of climate change science is “the most powerful predictor of both stated intentions to take voluntary actions and to vote on hypothetical referenda to enact new government polic ...
... and to shape public understanding of economic analysis (Stern, 2008: 1). Some researchers assert that public understanding of climate change science is “the most powerful predictor of both stated intentions to take voluntary actions and to vote on hypothetical referenda to enact new government polic ...
Climate Change Politics and Policy
... that most of us indulge ourselves with snippets of instantly-discovered information, but put off doing real research using vetted, peer-reviewed or otherwise well-chosen sources that often reside in library databases. The temptation to do a quick search online is like the challenge to public health ...
... that most of us indulge ourselves with snippets of instantly-discovered information, but put off doing real research using vetted, peer-reviewed or otherwise well-chosen sources that often reside in library databases. The temptation to do a quick search online is like the challenge to public health ...
Climate Change in the American Mind: October 2014
... The impacts of global warming are starting to be felt in the United States. According to the 2014 U.S. National Climate Assessment1: “Residents of some coastal cities see their streets flood more regularly during storms and high tides. Inland cities near large rivers also experience more flooding, e ...
... The impacts of global warming are starting to be felt in the United States. According to the 2014 U.S. National Climate Assessment1: “Residents of some coastal cities see their streets flood more regularly during storms and high tides. Inland cities near large rivers also experience more flooding, e ...
4 Climate politics and science in the media
... necessary. Climate sceptics, on the contrary, doubt the existence or the severity of global warming and usually argue against far-reaching climate policy or find climate policy not necessary at all. In the United States, climate-sceptic voices get a relatively large amount of media attention because ...
... necessary. Climate sceptics, on the contrary, doubt the existence or the severity of global warming and usually argue against far-reaching climate policy or find climate policy not necessary at all. In the United States, climate-sceptic voices get a relatively large amount of media attention because ...
Lindzen2014-What Catastrophe.pdf
... says that we are moving toward “an ice-free Antarctica and a desolate planet without human inhabitants.” But Lindzen, plainly, is different. He can’t be dismissed. Nor, of course, is he the only skeptic with serious scientific credentials. Judith Curry, the chair of the School of Earth and Atmospher ...
... says that we are moving toward “an ice-free Antarctica and a desolate planet without human inhabitants.” But Lindzen, plainly, is different. He can’t be dismissed. Nor, of course, is he the only skeptic with serious scientific credentials. Judith Curry, the chair of the School of Earth and Atmospher ...
Changing Global Warming Beliefs with Scientific Information
... were heavily suppressed by political or economic powers— such as heliocentrism and the links between tobacco smoke and severe illnesses. Likewise, we predict that a mechanistic warming explanation may help many people appreciate the soundness of climate change’s science––driving greater acceptance, ...
... were heavily suppressed by political or economic powers— such as heliocentrism and the links between tobacco smoke and severe illnesses. Likewise, we predict that a mechanistic warming explanation may help many people appreciate the soundness of climate change’s science––driving greater acceptance, ...
it`s not the heat, it`s the tepidity
... the true danger point, much later than that. It follows that we can’t base our confidence in global disaster on any consequences of the fact that things are warmer now than they were a century ago, such as sea level rise or the string of “warmest year on record” announcements, as those are part and ...
... the true danger point, much later than that. It follows that we can’t base our confidence in global disaster on any consequences of the fact that things are warmer now than they were a century ago, such as sea level rise or the string of “warmest year on record” announcements, as those are part and ...
Reinforced Theistic Manifest Destiny theory
... were heavily suppressed by political or economic powers— such as heliocentrism and the links between tobacco smoke and severe illnesses. Likewise, we predict that a mechanistic warming explanation may help many people appreciate the soundness of climate change’s science––driving greater acceptance, ...
... were heavily suppressed by political or economic powers— such as heliocentrism and the links between tobacco smoke and severe illnesses. Likewise, we predict that a mechanistic warming explanation may help many people appreciate the soundness of climate change’s science––driving greater acceptance, ...
The Hartwell Paper - LSE Research Online
... issue in a fundamental way: not simply in various procedural details. We must describe a different comprehensive approach for climate policy. To that end this paper proceeds as follows: In Part II(A), we first re-focus and state our goals. Then in II(B) we sketch the way in which the ‘climate politi ...
... issue in a fundamental way: not simply in various procedural details. We must describe a different comprehensive approach for climate policy. To that end this paper proceeds as follows: In Part II(A), we first re-focus and state our goals. Then in II(B) we sketch the way in which the ‘climate politi ...
Joseph J. Romm
Joseph J. Romm (born June 27, 1960) is an American author, blogger, physicist and climate expert who concentrates on methods of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and global warming and increasing energy security through energy efficiency, green energy technologies and green transportation technologies. In December 2008, Romm was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In March 2009, Rolling Stone magazine named Romm to its list of ""100 People Who Are Changing America"". In September 2009, Time magazine named him one of its ""Heroes of the Environment (2009)"", calling him ""The Web's most influential climate-change blogger"".Romm is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he founded their climate blog, Climate Progress, part of their Think Progress website. In 2008, Time magazine named Romm's blog one of the ""Top 15 Green Websites"". In 2009, Thomas L. Friedman, in his column in The New York Times, called Climate Progress ""the indispensable blog"", and in 2010, Time included it in a list of the 25 ""Best Blogs of 2010"". Romm also writes regularly for several energy and news websites. In the 1990s, Romm served as Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy. Romm has published several books on global warming and energy technology. Technology Review wrote that his December 2006 book, Hell and High Water, ""provides an accurate summary of what is known about global warming and climate change, a sensible agenda for technology and policy, and a primer on how political disinformation has undermined climate science."" Romm's 2010 book, Straight Up, released in April 2010, is a selection of his blog postings since 2007. His 2012 book, Language Intelligence, concerns persuasion and the effective use of rhetoric. Romm was the Chief Science Advisor for the 2014 Emmy Award-winning documentary series Years of Living Dangerously.