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Previous research findings display that after having seen popular climate change films, people became more concerned, more motivated and more aware of climate change, but changes in behaviors were short-term. This article performs a meta-analysis of three popular climate change films, The Day after Tomorrow (2005), An Inconvenient Truth (2006), and The Age of Stupid (2009), drawing on research in social psychology, human agency, and media effect theory in order to formulate a rationale about how mass media communication shapes our everyday life experience. This article highlights the factors with which science blends in the reception of the three climate change films and expands the range of options considered in order to encourage people to engage in climate change mitigation actions.

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This research article explores the textual and visual representations of climate change induced migration within online news media in the UK. This article innovates in two-senses: it demonstrates how images interact with text to co-construct and present specific discursive packages to the general public, and also by pinning down their content more precisely to understand how they might affect policy and public understanding of the issue. Despite their differences, similar policy options emerge in relation to divergent discursive packages. The figure of climate migrant/refugee is depoliticised and divested of context and complexity, and as such it resembles the referent objects of securitising claims. This article suggests that this may work in favour of xenophobic sentiments and policies and, ultimately, deepen existing migrant and refugee integration challenges in traditional host societies.

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