Posted on Jun 24, 2022
Factual climate change reporting can influence Americans positively, but not for long
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https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/ [login to see] /climate-change-science-environment-global-warming-study-report
Media coverage of climate change can influence Americans to adopt more accurate beliefs about the environment, but the information doesn't stay with them for long, according to a new report.
After reading accurate articles about climate change, Americans may see it more as a problem that impacts them and lean toward supporting the government's climate change policies.
"It is not the case that the American public does not respond to scientifically informed reporting when they are exposed to it," said Thomas Wood, one of the study's authors and an associate professor of political science at The Ohio State University.
Media coverage of climate change can influence Americans to adopt more accurate beliefs about the environment, but the information doesn't stay with them for long, according to a new report.
After reading accurate articles about climate change, Americans may see it more as a problem that impacts them and lean toward supporting the government's climate change policies.
"It is not the case that the American public does not respond to scientifically informed reporting when they are exposed to it," said Thomas Wood, one of the study's authors and an associate professor of political science at The Ohio State University.
Factual climate change reporting can influence Americans positively, but not for long
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At this point I believe that most everyone is aware of "Climate Change' and the impact it is having on our earth environment, PO1 William "Chip" Nagel... The problem is (in my view) that politicians have been shuffling climate change theatrics for so long, that they have no real plan how to shift seamlessly from a fossil fuel based change to one that is not based on fossil fuel, but on other means of energy... Wind is not going to cut it as they depend on machinery that needs constant lubrication and right now that lubrication is OIL... Having said that, Solar energy is coming along rapidly and may be the source we use long term... But we still need batteries for storage at this point the cost and maintenance and disposal of batteries to store energy is still not ideal... Having said that, we need technical minds to plan the evolution from fossil fuel energy to an energy source that doesn't impact the Earth's climate or destroy ocean or land based life, be it human, animal, bird or other natural life forms... Just postulating here!
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