DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102286
论文题名: The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets
作者: Mumenthaler C. ; Renaud O. ; Gava R. ; Brosch T.
刊名: Global Environmental Change
ISSN: 9593780
出版年: 2021
卷: 69 语种: 英语
中文关键词: Climate change attention
; Mental representation
; Social media
; Temperature volatility
英文关键词: air temperature
; climate change
; empirical analysis
; nonlinearity
; psychology
; regional climate
; social media
; trend analysis
英文摘要: Variability in local weather patterns has long been suggested as a major barrier impeding laypeople from recognizing long-term climate trends. However, as humans are able to detect and interpret rapid signal fluctuations, it seems psychologically plausible to assume that they are able to integrate short-term variations of weather variables into their mental representations of climate change. Using a combined analysis of social media and weather station data, here we investigated the impact of the short-term volatility of local temperature on climate change-related tweets from 2014 to 2017. We found a nonlinear hockey stick relationship between weekly temperature volatility and climate change-related tweets, a volatility rise of 1 °C corresponds to an 82% increase in climate change tweets when volatility is above 3.5 °C. This volatility effect was observed from 2016 onwards, suggesting a recent change in people's mental representations of climate change. This study provides empirical evidence illustrating that in the public mind, climate change may not be represented as a mere temperature increase any more, but as a disruption of the climate system in general. © 2021 The Author(s) Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/168319
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作者单位: Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Information Sciences, Geneva School of Business Administration, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western, Switzerland; School of Economics and Political Science, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Recommended Citation:
Mumenthaler C.,Renaud O.,Gava R.,et al. The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets[J]. Global Environmental Change,2021-01-01,69