Leipzig psychologists asked 1,313 German workers, every three months for a year, how jovial climate change makes them feel, and ran the answers through mixed-effects models. A point more climate…
Category: Climate Communications
Whisper Words of Wisdom. Climate ASMR Experiment Finds No Effect on Anything, Sees Potential Anyway
Quantitative analyses revealed no significant effects. However, qualitative thought-listing data suggest that ASMR may present an innovative sensory-affective format.
Somebody Call the Manager. Fact-Checkers Report 169 Climate Videos and Complain YouTube Didn’t Take Their Call
Charles Rotter Two Spanish and French fact-checking outfits, Fundación Maldita.es and Science Feedback, spent part of this year reporting climate videos to TikTok and YouTube. Their October report is about…
I’m not sure how they Certify the Certified Climate Science Professional but their timing is just awful.
When Climate Science is on a precipice about to fall over the edge. It’s like hitchhiking a ride with Thelma and Louise.
A Statistical Evaluation of the Whining of Climate Scientists as Political Activists
The paper does not consider whether being scared shitless is a sound foundation for professional conduct.
Can “The Silent Majority” and Media Intervention Drag Climate Action Back onto the Global Agenda?
Although media interest in climate change is crashing, apparently lots of people still want governments to act.
Yale: USA Still Deeply Divided on Climate Change
“… there are significant opportunities to connect climate action to other issues …”
UN Calls for “Climate Misinformation” to be Criminalised
“False claims obstructing climate action” – like claiming the Spanish blackout was caused by renewables
Guardian: “Choose your news” Media is Contributing to Climate Inaction
“… If there’s no common framework, there can be no consensus commitments. …”
Climate “Communicators” Discover the Best Way to Persuade Voters is to Lie to Them
This is a hilarious X (formerly Twitter) thread on a presentation about “messaging over climate”. Worst messages tested: electric cars, Green New Deal, frontline communities, ‘Big Oil lied’, climate pollution…
Aussie Government Grudgingly Retreats from Dictating Content Moderation to the Entire World
“… the online watchdog “considered this option (abandoning legal action) likely to achieve the most positive outcome for the online safety of all Australians, especially children”. …”
Passing 1.5C Global Warming is Now an “Opportunity”
You naughty proletariat, instead of spanking you for failing to reign in your emissions, we’re going to give you another chance to embrace green socialism.
MSNBC Damage Control: “Yes, it’s cold. Yes, the planet’s still warming.”
Defending the hottest year ever narrative in the middle of record breaking cold.
Guardian: A third of British Teenagers think Climate Change is Exaggerated
According to the Guardian, climate deniers have influenced teens by infiltrating youtube with disinformation videos.
New Climate Institute Claims Microsoft is “Unjustly” Quarantining Their Emails
Trojan, virus, hack or Microsoft defect?
Did the BBC’s Specialist Disinformation Reporter Lie on her CV?
BBC Disinformation head Marianna Spring is a fierce defender of the BBC’s institutional climate bias, and a critic of anti-Covid lockdown conspiracy theorists.
More Rending of Garments from “Academia” or Why…Why Won’t those Troglodytes Trust Us?
In the long tradition of Lewandowsky (who warrants an entire category listing on this site), Cook, Oreskes, and more, we have a new entry into the well-worn genre of trying…
Twitter Climate Alarmists Alarmed at the Rise of Free Speech
“… Half of regular green tweeters abandoned platform after its sale and cuts to moderation, analysis finds …”
Team Climate Crisis Resorts to Bullying, Again
One would think that the public relations fiasco that stuck climate science (and sullied the reputation of science in general) as a result of ClimateGate back in 2009 would restrain…
Claim: Aussies Should Learn Communication Skills from Greta Thunberg
“… Dig a little deeper and you’ll discover what climate deniers are actually scared of. …”