Experiencing a Severe Weather Event Increases Concern About Climate Change

Bergquist, Magnus; Nilsson, Andréas; Schultz, P. Wesley

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00220

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“…Similar results also have been found on the local level in Florida (Leiserowitz and Broad 2008) and England (Ogunbode et al 2019). Bergquist et al (2019), Konisky et al (2016), andSisco et al (2017) observe that extreme weather events may increase an individual's concern about climate change to some extent, while Gagliarducci et al (2019) show that extreme weather events influence politicians' determination to promote environmental legislation.…”

Section: Extreme Weather Events As Triggerssupporting

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Silver Lining to Extreme Weather Events? Democracy and Climate Change Mitigation

Peterson

2021

Global Environmental Politics

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Long-standing meteorological research has established that anthropogenic climate change increases the risk and intensity of extreme weather events, such as tropical cyclones, floods, and forest fires. However, comparatively little is known about the impact of such events on policy ambition. Studies on the topic emerged only recently and tend to focus on individual country cases. A comprehensive cross-country perspective is still missing. This article addresses the gap in the literature using large-scale analyses on the basis of country-level data from 2008 to 2017. The findings indicate that extreme weather events propel only highly functioning democracies to tackle climate change. Effects among remaining country cases are insignificant. This variation in the data can be attributed to democracies’ concern for the common good and the perspectives of those most affected by climate-related disasters.

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Silver Lining to Extreme Weather Events? Democracy and Climate Change Mitigation

Peterson

2021

Global Environmental Politics

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“…However, the most salient point in the context of researching perceived personal experience of climate change is that while many extreme weather events are likely to be influenced by climate change, they must be personally perceived as probable manifestations climate change to constitute ‘perceived personal experience of climate change.’ This criterion has seldom been addressed or applied in the research we have reviewed, previously and presently. It is noteworthy that, in multiple recent research surveys that include items addressing causal attributions for climate change, over 85% of respondents select options indicating the cause was either human activity mainly or entirely (e.g., Berquist, Nilsson, & Schultz, 2019; Capstick, Whitmarsh, Poortinga, Pidgeon, & Upham, 2015; Greenhill, Leviston, Leonard, & Walker, 2014; Leiserowitz & Smith, 2018; Poortinga et al, 2019; Reser, Bradley, & Ellul, 2012; Shao, Garand, Keim, & Hamilton, 2016; Sjoberg, 2000).…”

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The nature, significance, and influence of perceived personal experience of climate change

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Bradley

2020

WIREs Climate Change

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Following a previous 2014 review of perceived personal experience of climate change, the authors review relevant research published or reported between January 2014 and mid‐year 2019. The review findings suggest that the nature, significance, and influence of perceived personal experience of natural environment changes, conditions, and events deemed to be likely consequences of global climate change have been problematically conceptualized, researched, reported, and understood by many climate change scientists and by reporters of climate change science and their audiences. The nature, psychological significance, and psychological adaptation and issue engagement influence of personal experience of perceived environmental manifestations of climate change are arguably central considerations with respect to the human dimensions of climate change. These matters encompass public understanding of climate change science, both internal and external adaptation processes, and the psychological impacts of the ongoing stressor of climate change. They also affect issue engagement and behavioral change. It is increasingly necessary that existing issues with discipline‐based assumptive worlds, constructs and measures—and often unclear research and policy questions and objectives—be identified, clarified, and addressed. This particularly matters when researchers and policy makers are addressing public risk perceptions, understandings, and responses to global climate change, ideally to inform and enhance policies directed at climate change mitigation and adaptation, or, alternatively framed, directed towards public issue engagement and ‘psychologically significant’ as well as ‘environmentally significant’ behavioral change. This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Perceptions of Climate Change

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“…Experiments have demonstrated many factors that affect the public engagement of climate change, such as cognitive bias (Lazarus, 2008;Holmgren et al, 2018), lack of knowledge (Sterman and Sweeney, 2007), negative footprint illusion (Holmgren et al, 2019), and even the experience of extreme weather (Bergquist et al, 2019;Marshall et al, 2019), leading to public disregard for this problem (Mazar and Zhong, 2010;Sorqvist and Langeborg, 2019), which is the so-called "psychological distance of climate change" (McDonald et al, 2015). Recent literature shows a negative relation between psychological distance of climate change and pro-environmental behavioral intentions (Sacchi et al, 2016).…”

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Motivation Analysis of Online Green Users: Evidence From Chinese “Ant Forest”

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Environmental protection activities based on digital technology have cultivated many online green users (OGUs) and may become a critical means to combat global climate change. This paper explores individuals' motivation to participate in online environmental protection activities and whether the activities have significantly increased individuals' intention to participate in global collaboration on climate change. Taking Ant Forest as an example, this paper first summarized 14 trigger reasons for users' participation in online environmental protection activities through interviews, then surveyed 600 OGUs through questionnaires, and studied the behavioral motivation from the four dimensions of environmental awareness, social motivation, online immersion, and global cooperation intention by using a structural equation model. The study found that both environmental awareness and social motivation had significant positive promotional effects on OGUs' online immersion, and environmental awareness was higher than social motivation. Environmental awareness as a long-term motivation is conducive to the achievement of long-term climate goals, and social motivation is focused on short-term entertainment functions. There is a significant positive interactive relationship between environmental awareness and social motivation under the effect of digital technology, which jointly promote the improvement of OGUs' online immersion, and online immersion is conducive to enhancing OGUs' global cooperation intention. This study demonstrated that digital technology can effectively improve individuals' intention to protect the environment and found a means to quickly identify the best OGUs (most willing to participate in global cooperation), which provided a new opportunity to inspire greater public participation in the global action against climate change.

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Experiencing a Severe Weather Event Increases Concern About Climate Change

Cited by 96 publications

References 31 publications

Silver Lining to Extreme Weather Events? Democracy and Climate Change Mitigation

Silver Lining to Extreme Weather Events? Democracy and Climate Change Mitigation

The nature, significance, and influence of perceived personal experience of climate change

Motivation Analysis of Online Green Users: Evidence From Chinese “Ant Forest”

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