The role of high-socioeconomic-status people in locking in or rapidly reducing energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions

KS Nielsen, KA Nicholas, F Creutzig, T Dietz, PC Stern - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
People with high socioeconomic status disproportionally affect energy-driven greenhouse
gas emissions directly through their consumption and indirectly through their financial and …

Bad beliefs: Why they happen to good people

N Levy - 2021 - library.oapen.org
Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in
defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as …

Anxiety and climate change: a validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale in a German-speaking quota sample and an investigation of psychological correlates

MC Wullenkord, J Tröger, KRS Hamann, LS Loy… - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
The climate crisis is an unprecedented existential threat that causes disturbing emotions,
such as anxiety. Recently, Clayton and Karazsia measured climate anxiety as “a more …

Framing, Context, and Methods (Chapter 1)

D Chen, M Rojas, BH Samset, K Cobb… - 2021 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses
the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, evaluating knowledge …

The influence of political ideology on greenhouse gas emissions

QJ Wang, GF Feng, HJ Wang, CP Chang - Global Environmental Change, 2022 - Elsevier
This research tests the casual link from political ideology to national greenhouse gas
emissions by utilizing multinational panel data covering 98 countries during the period 1990 …

Climate change and society

T Dietz, RL Shwom, CT Whitley - Annual Review of Sociology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Climate change is one of the greatest ecological and social challenges of the twenty-first
century. Sociologists have made important contributions to our knowledge of the human …

Individuals with greater science literacy and education have more polarized beliefs on controversial science topics

C Drummond, B Fischhoff - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2017 - pnas.org
Although Americans generally hold science in high regard and respect its findings, for some
contested issues, such as the existence of anthropogenic climate change, public opinion is …

Why do youth participate in climate activism? A mixed-methods investigation of the# FridaysForFuture climate protests.

CAP Haugestad, AD Skauge, JR Kunst… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The# FridaysForFuture movement has attracted young activists around the world. In the
present mixed-method, socio-cultural psychological research, we investigate people's …

Widespread misestimates of greenhouse gas emissions suggest low carbon competence

EJ Johnson, ER Sugerman, VG Morwitz… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
As concern with climate change increases, people seek to behave and consume
sustainably. This requires understanding which behaviours, firms and industries have the …

Communicating science effectively: A research agenda

National Academies of Sciences, Medicine… - 2017 - books.google.com
Science and technology are embedded in virtually every aspect of modern life. As a result,
people face an increasing need to integrate information from science with their personal …