Climate change disinformation and how to combat it

S Lewandowsky - Annual review of public health, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Climate change presents a challenge at multiple levels: It challenges our cognitive abilities
because the effect of the accumulation of emissions is difficult to understand. Climate …

Personal experience and the 'psychological distance'of climate change: An integrative review

RI McDonald, HY Chai, BR Newell - Journal of environmental psychology, 2015 - Elsevier
Studies examining personal experiences of climate change-related events highlight the
potential to encourage climate action by framing it as happening now, in your neighborhood …

Science audiences, misinformation, and fake news

DA Scheufele, NM Krause - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2019 - pnas.org
Concerns about public misinformation in the United States—ranging from politics to science—
are growing. Here, we provide an overview of how and why citizens become (and …

Beyond misinformation: Understanding and co** with the “post-truth” era

S Lewandowsky, UKH Ecker, J Cook - … of applied research in memory and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The terms “post-truth” and “fake news” have become increasingly prevalent in public
discourse over the last year. This article explores the growing abundance of misinformation …

Computer-assisted classification of contrarian claims about climate change

TG Coan, C Boussalis, J Cook, MO Nanko - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
A growing body of scholarship investigates the role of misinformation in sha** the debate
on climate change. Our research builds on and extends this literature by (1) develo** and …

A protocol for probabilistic extreme event attribution analyses

S Philip, S Kew, GJ van Oldenborgh… - Advances in …, 2020 - ascmo.copernicus.org
Over the last few years, methods have been developed to answer questions on the effect of
global warming on recent extreme events. Many “event attribution” studies have now been …

Relationships among conspiratorial beliefs, conservatism and climate scepticism across nations

MJ Hornsey, EA Harris, KS Fielding - Nature Climate Change, 2018 - nature.com
Studies showing that scepticism about anthropogenic climate change is shaped, in part, by
conspiratorial and conservative ideologies are based on data primarily collected in the …

Reconciling controversies about the 'global warming hiatus'

I Medhaug, MB Stolpe, EM Fischer, R Knutti - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Between about 1998 and 2012, a time that coincided with political negotiations for
preventing climate change, the surface of Earth seemed hardly to warm. This phenomenon …

Fighting fake news in the COVID-19 era: policy insights from an equilibrium model

K Hartley, MK Vu - Policy sciences, 2020 - Springer
The COVID-19 crisis has revealed structural failures in governance and coordination on a
global scale. With related policy interventions dependent on verifiable evidence, pandemics …

The IPCC and the new map of science and politics

S Beck, M Mahony - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we review work which seeks to understand and interpret the place of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) within the science and politics of …