As the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP 28) begins in Dubai, we are pleased to release a...
Communication Articles
Engaging Diverse Audiences with Climate Change: Message Strategies for Global Warming’s Six Americas
This chapter will appear in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication, Second Edition,...
Informal Science Education on the NASA Climate Change Website
Download the report here The report summarizes the results of a nationally representative survey of 1,050 American...
Climate Matters: A 2020 Census Survey of Society of Environmental Journalists Members
Download the Report This report provides the initial findings from an online census survey of Society of Environmental...
Climate Matters: A 2020 Census Survey of Television Weathercasters in the United States
Download the Report This report provides the initial findings from an online census survey of U.S.-based television...
Americans’ Views on Climate Change, NASA, and NASA’s Climate Website
This report summarizes the results of a nationally representative survey of American adults conducted in 2018. The...
American Adolescents’ Responses to NASA’s Climate Change Website
This is the second of two reports about American adolescents and climate change. In the first report, we described...
Who do Americans trust most for information about COVID-19?
Jennifer Marlon, Edward Maibach, Matthew Ballew, Parrish Bergquist, Matthew Goldberg, Abel Gustafson, John Kotcher,...
American Public Responses to COVID-19: April 2020
Drawing on a scientific national survey (N = 3,933; including 3,188 registered voters), this report describes...
How Hope and Doubt Affect Climate Change Mobilization
This article explores how emotions such as hope and doubt significantly impact efforts to mobilize action against...
Testing Logic-based and Humor-based Corrections for Science, Health, and Political Misinformation on Social Media
Misinformation causes a range of negative impacts. One proposed solution is applying critical thinking techniques to...
Fossil fuels are harming our brains: Identifying key messages about the health effects of air pollution from fossil fuels
A large body of evidence suggests that a transition away from fossil fuels toward a clean energy economy will...
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