Public Perceptions on Climate Change: A Sentiment Analysis Approach

Taufek, Tasha Erina; Nor, Nor Fariza Mohd; Jaludin, Azhar; Tiun, Sabrina; Choy, Lam Kuok

doi:10.17576/gema-2021-2104-11

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“…Current literature suggests that analyzing the public perception of climate change policies such as the Green Deal may highlight key concerns of the general public. Public opinion therefore plays an important role in influencing the implementation of measures aimed at mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change (Taufek et al, 2021;Pueyo-Ros and Garau, 2023). Thus, the goal of this research was to obtain a deeper understanding of the Green Deal discourse on social media and to identify sentiment related to particular themes within this space using Twitter analytic techniques.…”

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“…Previous studies show that discussion on the topic of climate change is mainly accompanied by negative sentiment and steps Frontiers in Environmental Science frontiersin.org leading to its elimination are generally perceived positively (Cody et al, 2015;Dahal et al, 2019;Taufek et al, 2021), especially when it comes to the necessity of carbon neutrality (Xiang et al, 2021), the transition to renewable energy sources (Loureiro and Alló, 2020), and the idea of a circular economy (Maulida, 2023). Analysis of public opinion is key to understand how people take measures to mitigate the effects of climate change (Taufek et al, 2021;Pueyo-Ros and Garau, 2023). Our results show that positive sentiment slightly prevailed around the "Industrial Plan" (35%), "Hydrogen" (29%), the "European Green Deal" itself (28%), "Transport" (27%), and the "Circular Economy" (24%).…”

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Analysis of green deal communication on twitter: environmental and political perspective

Balcarova,

Pilarova,

Prokop

et al. 2024

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The Green Deal and its implementation are generating discussions across society. Changes brought about by the agreement could impact sustainable development worldwide; therefore, identifying the most common Green Deal-related topics on a global scale can offer insight into the public mood around implementation of the agreement. Social networks provide the opportunity to find such topics because they contain a large amount of data produced by users worldwide: analysis of their content can therefore provide insight into the discourse on the Green Deal and identify the sentiment in discussions around this topic. In this article, we present perceptions of the Green Deal and identify the main Green Deal-related topics based on analysis of communication on the Twitter social network (currently X social network). Using the search terms “green deal,” “greendeal,” and “#greendeal,” 192,567 tweets from 89,328 unique users were captured between 1 January 2019 and 31 March 2023. We identified the 40 most used unique hashtags that people used when communicating about the Green Deal, which included “#EU,” “#eugreendeal,” and “#climatechange,” and the 16 most relevant topics discussed in relation to the Green Deal, which included both European (“European Green Deal”) and North American (“Green New Deal”) perspectives. Each topic was associated with a certain amount of negative, positive, or neutral sentiment: the most positive sentiment was associated with the “Industrial plan” and “Hydrogen” topics, and the most negative sentiment was associated with topics relating to “Joe Biden” and “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.” Overall, our analysis of the discourse regarding the Green Deal offers organizations and decision-makers insight into how people perceive different aspects of the Green Deal and related topics. This may be beneficial in tackling disinformation across social networks and increasing public awareness, which could create a society better equipped to face the global concern of climate change.

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Analysis of green deal communication on twitter: environmental and political perspective

Balcarova,

Pilarova,

Prokop

et al. 2024

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Yet, when there is significant climate change discussion on Twitter, the discourse tends to be notably negative [20]. Users tend to express negative sentiments about the term "global warming" rather than "climate change" [21]- [23].…”

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Understanding Environmental Posts: Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Social Media Data

Amangeldi,

Usmanova,

Shamoi

2024

IEEE Access

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Social media is now the predominant source of information due to the availability of immediate public response. As a result, social media data has become a valuable resource for comprehending public sentiments.Studies have shown that it can amplify ideas and influence public sentiments. This study analyzes the public perception of climate change and the environment over a decade from 2014 to 2023. Using the Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) algorithm, we identify sentiment and explore prevailing emotions expressed within environmental tweets across various social media platforms, namely Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube. Accuracy on a human-annotated dataset was 0.65, higher than Vader's score but lower than that of an expert rater (0.90). Our findings suggest that negative environmental tweets are far more common than positive or neutral ones. Climate change, air quality, emissions, plastic, and recycling are the most discussed topics on all social media platforms, highlighting its huge global concern. The most common emotions in environmental tweets are fear, trust, and anticipation, demonstrating the wide and complex nature of public reactions. By identifying patterns and trends in opinions related to the environment, we hope to provide insights that can help raise awareness regarding environmental issues, inform the development of interventions, and adapt further actions to meet environmental challenges.

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“…As a result, sentiment analysis techniques have also been used to explore public opinion toward climate change, categorizing opinions as positive, negative, or neutral, thus providing deeper insights into the public's emotional stance on the issue (Pak et al 2010). Sentiment analysis can also be used in a diachronic manner, to track major changes in public sentiment, identify shifts in public perception over time, and reveal how climate change sentiment evolves (Taufek et al 2021).…”

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Crisis talk: analysis of the public debate around the energy crisis and cost of living

Panchendrarajan,

Popova,

Russell-Rose

2024

Soc. Netw. Anal. Min.

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A prominent media topic in the UK in the early 2020s is the energy crisis affecting the UK and most of Europe. It brings into a single public debate issues of energy dependency and sustainability, fair distribution of economic burdens and cost of living, as well as climate change, risk, and sustainability. In this paper, we investigate the public discourse around the energy crisis and cost of living to identify how these pivotal and contradictory issues are reconciled in this debate and to identify which social actors are involved and the role they play. We analyse a document corpus retrieved from UK newspapers from January 2014 to March 2023. We apply a variety of natural language processing and data visualisation techniques to identify key topics, novel trends, critical social actors, and the role they play in the debate, along with the sentiment associated with those actors and topics. We combine automated techniques with manual discourse analysis to explore and validate the insights revealed in this study. The findings verify the utility of these techniques by providing a flexible and scalable pipeline for discourse analysis and providing critical insights for cost of living—energy crisis nexus research.

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Public Perceptions on Climate Change: A Sentiment Analysis Approach

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Analysis of green deal communication on twitter: environmental and political perspective

Analysis of green deal communication on twitter: environmental and political perspective

Understanding Environmental Posts: Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Social Media Data

Crisis talk: analysis of the public debate around the energy crisis and cost of living

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