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How to engage population with climate change? Frame it as public health issue
2015-07-09 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Recent research in Environmental Communication examines the powerful influence of mass media portrayal of climate change and subsequent public identification with the issue. Climate change is often reported as an environmental issue, this depiction arguably lacks personal relevance to individuals. Weathers and Kendall study US reportage of climate change in a public health frame; a more powerful presentation for motivating public engagement and action against climate change? The majority of the...
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Jerry Brown aims to lead a climate change revolution
2015-07-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Gov. Jerry Brown has been in Toronto at a climate change conference for the last couple of days. He is seeking new governmental partners to join a push to reduce the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. Right now, there are 17 states and provinces in the Western Hemisphere, Africa and Europe that have pledged to make significant progress toward curbing the planet-warming pollutants between now and 2050. In Toronto, Brown added Quebec to the list with Ontario hoping to follow. Washington...
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How Can We Make People Care About Climate Change?
2015-07-09 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Per Espen Stoknes, a Norwegian psychologist and economist, has been doing a lot of thinking about a question that has bedeviled climate scientists for years: Why have humans so far failed to deal with the looming threat posed by climate change? That question is the focus of his recent book, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming, in which he analyzes what he calls the five psychological barriers that have made it difficult to deal realistically with the climate crisis....
Internal Documents Expose Fossil Fuel Industrys Decades of Deception on Climate Change
2015-07-09 14:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse created a stir recently when he speculated that fossil fuel companies may be violating federal racketeering law by colluding to defraud the public about the threat posed by carbon pollution. Whitehouse likened their actions to those of the tobacco companies that conspired to manufacture doubt about the link between smoking and disease when they were all too aware of it. In 2006, a federal district court ruled that the tobacco industrys deceptive campaign to...
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North and South American Leaders to Pledge Fight Climate Change
2015-07-09 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Representatives from across North and South America gathered in Toronto this week for the Climate Summit of the Americas, where the government of Ontario and 21 other jurisdictions signed the first-ever Pan-American action statement on climate change. Signatories to the statement -- including Vermont, Oregon, and San Paolo -- agreed to band together to make sure global temperature levels don't go up more than two degrees celsius, report publicly on their efforts to reduce emissions, and support...
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