A collection of peer-reviewed research articles to better inform scientists how to present, speak, and communicate about climate change and issues regarding climate change. This database was completed by Madelyn Huinker (Communication Studies, Environmental Studies) in Fall 2020.
Three research questions were used in the collection process:
1) How do key dimensions of scientific trustworthiness and credibility affect public acceptance of scientific claims, including climate change messaging?
2) How does communication about climate change affect or intersect with public perceptions of scientific trustworthiness or credibility?
3) How can communication and engagement strategies about climate change be designed to enhance perceptions of scientific trustworthiness and credibility?
This database provides support for these questions and encourages others to expand upon these questions and this collection of knowledge to further investigate and improve climate change communication.
| Author(s) | Title | Date | Journal/Source | DOI | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. Gordon Arbuckle, Jr., Lois Wright Morton, Jon Hobbs | Understanding Farmer Perspectives on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: The Roles of Trust in Sources of Climate Information, Climate Information, Climate Change Beliefs, and Perceived Risk | 2015 | Environment and Behavior | 10.1177/001391651350382 | Trust, beliefs, perceived risk |
| Maxwell T. Boykoff, Jules M. Boykoff | Climate change and journalistic norms: A case-study of US mass-media coverage | 2007 | 10.1016/j.geogorum.2007.01.008 | Global warming, mass-media, United States, Journalism, Bias | |
| Steven R. Brechin, Medani Bhandari | Perceptions of climate change worldwide | 2011 | 10.1002/wcc.146 | General public, willingness, public perceptions | |
| Anthony A. Leiserowitz, Edward W. Maibach, et al. | Climategate, Public Opinion, and the Loss of Trust | 2012 | American Behavioral Scientist | 10.1177/0002764212458272 | Trust, public opinion, climate change, risk perception, climategate |
| Viktoria Cologna, Michael Siegrist | The role of trust for climate change mitigation and adaptation behaviour: A meta-analysis | 2020 | Journal of Environmental Psychology | 10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101428 | Trust, mitigation, adaptation, climate scientists, Pro-environmental behaviour |
| Janis L. Dickinson, Rhiannon Crain, et al. | How Framing Climate Change Influences Citizen Scientists' Intentions to Do Something About It | 2013 | The Journal of Environmental Education | 10.1080/00958964.2012.742032 | education, collective action, dire messages, framing, group efficacy, terror management theory |
| Arthur Lupia | Communicating science in politicized environments | 2013 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) | 10.1073/pnas.1212726110 | belief change, civic education, political communication, science communication |
| John E. Kotcher, Teresa A. Myers, Emily K. Vraga, Neil Stenhouse & Edward W. Malbach | Does Engagement in Advocacy Hurt the Credibility of Scientists Results from a Randomized National Survey Experiment | 2017 | Environmental Communication | 10.1080/17524032.2016.1275736 | advocacy, credibility, trust in scientists, public engagement, message effects |
| Baruch Fishchoff | Nonpersuasive Communication about Matters of Greatest Urgency: Climate Change | 2007 | Environmental Science & Technology | No DOI. Link to article: https://www.cmu.edu/epp/people/faculty/research/Fischhoff-Nonpersuasive%20Comm-EST.pdf | credibility, advocacy, science, policy |
| Jean Goodwin, Michael F. Dahlstrom | Communication strategies for earning trust in climate change debates | 2014 | WIREs Climate Change | 10.1002/wcc.262 | Communication strategies, trust, debate |
| Gordon Gauchat, Timothy O'Brien, Oriol Mirosa | The legitimacy of environmental scientists in the public sphere | 2017 | Climatic Change | 10.1007/s10584-017-2015-z | policy, attitudes, public sphere, beliefs |
| Lawrence C. Hamilton, Joel Hartter, Kei Saito | Trust in Scientists on Climate Change and Vaccines | 2015 | SAGE Journals | 10.1177/2158244015602752 | climate change, vaccines, trust, scientists, forest management, partisanship, ideology, liberals |
| Jay D. Hmielowski, Lauren Feldman, Teresa A. Myers, et al. | An attack on science? Media use, trust in scientists, and perceptions of global warming | 2013 | Public Understanding of Science | 10.1177/0963662513480091 | cable news, media effects, quantitative, survey |
| David Sleeth-Keppler, Robert Perkowitz, Meighen Speiser | It's a Matter of Trust: American Judgments of the Credibility of Informal Communicators on Solutions to Climate Change | 2015 | Environmental Communication | 10.1080/17524032.2015.1062790 | Epistemic authority, demographics, persuasion, trust |
| Dan M. Kahan, Ellen Peters, Maggie Wittlin, et al. | The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks | 2012 | Nature Climate Change | 10.1038/nclimate1547 | perceived risk, science literacy |
| Bjørn P. Kaltenborn, Olve Krange, Torvald Tangeland | Cultural resources and public trust shape attitudes toward climate change and preferred futures - A case study among the Norwegian public | 2017 | Futures | 10.1016/j.futures.2017.04.005 | attitudes, socialization, cultural resources, trust |
| Jon A. Krosnick, Allyson L. Holbrook, Laura Lowe, et al. | The Origins and Consequences of Democratic Citizens' Policy Agendas: A Study of Popular Concern About Global Warming | 2006 | Climatic Change | 10.1007/s10584-006-9068-8 | judgments, severity, beliefs, public policy |
| Justine Lacey, Mark Howden, Christopher Cvitanovic, et al. | Understanding and managing trust at the climate science-policy interface | 2018 | Nature Climate Change | 10.1038/s41558-017-0010-z | policy, society, responsiveness, understanding |
| Anthony Leiserowitz | International Public Opinion, Perception, and Understanding of Global Climate Change | 2007 | United Nations Development Programme | public, perception, understanding | |
| Ariel Malka, Jon A. Krosnick, Gary Langer | The Association of Knowledge with Concern About Global Warming: Trusted Information Sources Shape Public thinking | 2009 | Society for Risk Analysis | 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2009.01220.x | source credibility, political attitudes |
| Susanne C. Moser | Communicating climate change: history, challenges, process and future directions | 2010 | WIREs Climate Change | 10.1002/wcc.11 | perceptions, behavior, communication |
| Susanne C. Moser, Julia A. Ekstrom | A framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation | 2010 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) | 10.1073/pnas.1007887107 | adapting, social-ecological system, decision process |
| Matthew Motta | The enduring effect of scientific interest on trust in climate scientists in the United States | 2018 | Nature Climate Change | 10.1038/s41558-018-0126-9 | scientific interest, adulthood, bipartisan, youth |
| Teresa A. Myers, John Kotcher, Neil Stenhouse, Ashley A. Anderson, et al. | Predictors of trust in the general science and climate science research of US federal agencies | 2016 | Public Understanding of Science | 10.1177/0963662516636040 | climate science, public opinion, trust |
| Matthew C. Nisbet, Teresa Myers | The Polls - Trends: Twenty Years of Public Opinion About Global Warming | 2007 | Public Opinion Quarterly | 10.1093/poq/nfm031 | public opinion, ideology, policy, support |
| Tien Ming Lee, Ezra M. Markowitz, Peter D. Howe, et al. | Predictors of public climate change awareness and risk perception around the world | 2015 | Nature Climate Change | 10.1038/NCLIMATE2728 | public opinion, predictor, perceptions, education, literacy, public understanding |
| Ulrike Hahn, Adam J. L. Harris, Adam Corner | Public Reception of Climate Science: Coherence, Reliability, and Independence | 2015 | Topics in Cognitive Science | 10.1111/tops.12173 | testimony, consensus, source credibility, coherence, Bayesian inference |
| Luis Sanz-Menédez, Laura Cruz-Castro | The credibility of scientific communication sources regarding climate change: A population-based survey experiment | 2019 | Public Understanding of Science | 10.1177/0963662519840946 | information credibility, institutional confidence, public understanding of science, science communication, trust |
| Elke U. Weber | What shapes perceptions of climate change? | 2010 | WIREs Climate Change | 10.1002/wcc.41 | perceptions, culture, expectations, affect-based decisions |
| Elke U. Weber, Paul C. Stern | Public Understanding of Climate Change in the United States | 2011 | American Psychologist | 10.1037/a0023253 | risk perception, climate change perception, mental models, expert-novice differences |
| Lorraine Whitmarsh | Scepticism and uncertainty about climate change: Dimensions, determinants, and change over time | 2011 | Global Environmental Change | 10.1037/a0023253 | climate sceptics, public attitudes, perceptions, uncertainty |
| Brigitte Nerlich, Nelya Koteyko, Brian Brown | Theory and language of climate change communication | 2009 | WIREs Climate Change | 10.1002/wcc.2 | perceptions, behavior, knowledge |
| David Ockwell, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Saffron O'Neill | Reorienting Climate Change Communication for Effective Mitigation: Forcing People to be Green or Fostering Grass-Roots Engagement? | 2009 | Science Communication | 10.1177/1075547008328969 | social norms, free rider effect, political capital, public acceptance |
| Chris Russill, Zoe Nyssa | The tipping point trend in climate change communication | 2009 | Global Environmental Change | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.04.001 | news media, threshold, tipping point, anthropogenic intererence |
| Daniel A. Chapman, Brian Lickel, Ezra M. Markowitz | Reassessing emotion in climate change communication | 2017 | Nature Climate Change | 10.1038/s41558-017-0021-9 | psychology, behavior, emotions, affective |
| Warren Pearce, Brian Brown, Brigitte Nerlich, Nelya Koteyko | Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus | 2015 | WIREs Climate Change | 10.1002/wcc.366 | Perceptions, tensions, public engagement, online media |
| Adam Seth Levine, Reuben Kline | A new approach for evaluating climate change communication | 2017 | Climatic Change | 10.1007/s10584-017-1952-x | public opinion, political engagement, partner organization, climate change risk |
| Peter Weingart, Anita Engels, Petra Pansegrau | Risks of communication: discourses on climate change in science, politics, and the mass media | 2000 | Public Understanding of Science | 10.1088/0963-6625/9/3/304 | mass media, theoretical implications, Germany |
| Adam Corner, Christopher Groves | Breaking the climate change communication deadlock | 2014 | Nature Climate Change | No DOI. Link to article: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.857.4374&rep=rep1&type=pdf | society, tensions, institutions |
| Anne Gammelgaard Ballantyne | Climate change communication: what can we learn from communication theory? | 2016 | WIREs Climate Change | 10.1002/wcc.392 | perceptions, literature review, framework |
| Alison Anderson | Sources, media, and modes of climate change communication: the role of celebrities | 2011 | WIREs Climate Change | 10.1002/wcc.119 | portrayal, print media, culture, double-edged sword |
| Donald W Hine, Joseph P Reser, Mark Morrison, Wendy J Phillips, et al. | Audience segmentation and climate change communication: conceptual and methodological considerations | 2014 | WIREs Climate Change | 10.1002/wcc.279 | audience segmentation, values, beliefs |
| Adam R. Pearson, Matthew T. Ballew, Sarah Naiman, Jonathon P. Schuldt | Race, Class, Gender and Climate Change Communication | 2017 | 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.412 | diversity, race, ethnicity, gender, social identity, intergroup relations | |
| Anthony Leiserowitz, Karen Akerlof | Race, Ethnicity and Public Responses to Climate Change | 2010 | Yale Project on Climate Change | No DOI. http://environment.yale.edu/uploads/RaceEthnicity2010.pdf | public support, policy, racial and ethnic groups, minorities |
| Sabine Roeser | Risk Communication, Public Engagement, and Climate Change: A Role for Emotions | 2012 | Risk Analysis | 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01812.x | emotions, lifestyle change |
| Saffron J. O'Neill, Maxwell Boykoff, Simon Niemeyer, Sophie A. Day | On the use of imagery for climate change engagement | 2012 | Global Environmental Change | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.11.006 | climate imagery, perceptions, public engagement, saliency |
| Matthew C. Nisbet | Communicating Climate Change: Why Frames Matter for Public Engagement | 2010 | Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development | 10.3200/ENVT.51.2.12-23 | education, frames, public engagement |
| Saffron O'Neill, Sophie Nicholson-Cole | "Fear Won't Do It": Promoting Positive Engagement With Climate Change Through Visual and Iconic Representations | 2009 | Science Communication | 10.1177/1075547008329201 | fear-arousal, visual, engagement |
| Sarah Schweizer, Shawn Davis, Jessica Leigh Thompson | Changing the Conversation about Climate Change: A Theoretical Framework for Place-Based Climate Change Engagement | 2013 | Environmental Communication | 10.1080/17524032.2012.753634 | cultural values and beliefs, norm activation, action |
| Keith R. Stamm, Fiona Clark, Paula Reynolds Eblacas | Mass communication and public understanding of environmental problems: the case of global warming | 2000 | Public Understanding of Science | 10.1088/0963-6625/9/3/302 | mass media, interpersonal, misconceptions |