The Carbon Brief and other resources

For up to date discussion on matters Climate Change, the following may be of interest:

The Carbon Brief 

and

Andy Revkin’s Dot Earth blog

and

On the use of imagery for climate change engagement:

New research from universities in the US, Australia and the UK has tested how different pictures make people feel about whether climate change is important, and whether they can do something about it.

One of the papers’s authors, Dr Saffron O’Neill from the University of Exeter, told us:

“I don’t think there’s any ‘ideal’ combination of images for engaging people with climate change, as it depends what you are trying to communicate, why you are trying to communicate it, and to whom.

“However, our study does indicate that it’s important to decide first whether you are trying to increase peoples’ sense of saliency (how important they feel climate change is), or their sense of efficacy (whether they feel empowered to act). It appears images may be able to influence one (either saliency or efficacy), but none of the images seemed to be able to do both.”