Climate Matters Journal 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,…

An eye tracking approach to understanding misinformation and correction strategies on social media: The mediating role of attention and credibility to reduce HPV vaccine misperceptions

This study uses an unobtrusive eye tracking approach to examine understudied psychological mechanisms—message attention and…

How Hope and Doubt Affect Climate Change Mobilization

Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence

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…

Understanding and countering misinformation about climate change

ABSTRACT While there is overwhelming scientific agreement on climate change, the public has become polarized…

Turning Climate Misinformation into an Educational Opportunity: Chapter 2

Our Turning Misinformation into Educational Opportunities (TMEO) Teacher Ambassadors have developed and field tested five misconceptions-based climate…

Increasing Public Awareness and Facilitating Behavior Change: Two Guiding Heuristics

If there is a single aspiration that unifies the professionals who work on the challenges…

Communicating Sea Level Rise

Three quarters of the world’s large cities are located on coasts. As climate change causes…

How to Inoculate the Public Against Misinformation About Climate Change

In this study, we tested whether preemptive “inoculation messages” can protect the beneficial effects of…

The Consumer as Climate Activist

Consumption of green products is growing rapidly in the United States. We assessed the extent…

TV Meteorologists as Local Climate Change Educators

Five years ago – in partnership with Climate Central and WLTX (Columbia, SC) – we…

The Importance of Assessing and Communicating Scientific Consensus

The spread of influential misinformation, such as conspiracy theories about the existence of a secret,…

Developing effective communication materials on the health effects of climate change for vulnerable groups: a mixed methods study

Individuals with chronic health conditions or low socioeconomic status (SES) are more vulnerable to the…

Risky business: Engaging the public on sea level rise and inundation

To examine whether U.S. public opinion may become as sharply polarized on adaptation responses as…

When Should Environmental Awareness Be a Policy Goal? Assessing the Conditions Under Which Raising Awareness Increases Environmental Sustainability and Societal Resilience

Since the 1970s, governments have increasingly sought to achieve greater environmental awareness among their citizens…

Documenting the Human Health Impacts of Climate Change in Tropical and Subtropical Regions

Climate change is harming human health, and the magnitude of the harm is increasing. This…

The Role of Collective Efficacy in Climate Change Adaptation in India

Research on adaptive capacity often focuses on economics and technology, despite evidence from the social…

Vulnerable Populations Perceive Their Health as at Risk from Climate Change

In this 2013 survey we measured Maryland residents’ climate beliefs, health risk perceptions, and household…

Highlighting Consensus Among Medical Scientists Increases Public Support For Vaccines: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

A substantial minority of American adults continue to hold influential misperceptions about childhood vaccine safety.…

Improving Public Engagement with Climate Change: Five “Best Practice” Insights from Psychological Science

Despite being one of the most important societal challenges of the 21st century, public engagement…

Local Climate Experts: The Influence of Local TV Weather Information on Climate Change Perceptions

Individuals who identify changes in their local climate are also more likely to report that…

Do Americans Understand Global Warming is Harmful to Health? Evidence from a National Survey

Global warming has significant negative consequences for human health, with some groups at greater risk…

Climate Matters: A Comprehensive Educational Resource Program for Broadcast Meteorologists

Global climate change is influencing the weather in every region of the United States, often…

Mona Safarty, MD MPH, and Edward Maibach, MPH PhD, in Climate Change and Public Health

Climate change is causing, and will increasingly cause, a wide range of adverse health effects,…

Simple Messages Help Set the Record Straight about Scientific Agreement on Human-Caused Climate Change: The Results of Two Experiments

Human-caused climate change is happening; nearly all climate scientists are convinced of this basic fact…

Views of AAAAI Members on Climate Change and Health

The American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) assessed their members’ knowledge, attitudes, and…

The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change as a Gateway Belief: Experimental Evidence

There is currently widespread public misunderstanding about the degree of scientific consensus on human-caused climate…

American Thoracic Society (ATS) Member Survey on Climate Change and Health

This article presents the results of a survey of the American Thoracic Society and the Center…

A Survey of African American Physicians on the Health Effects of Climate Change

The U.S. National Climate Assessment concluded that climate change is harming the health of many…