In what is likely to prove one of its most controversial episodes yet, this week's "Cosmos" lays out the powerful scientific case for climate change, framed within a tale of two planets: Venus and Earth.
As a result, the partisan divide on the issue dropped from 42.9 percentage points under a "global warming" frame to 26.2 percentage points under a "climate change" frame.
The tendency toward associative and affective processes and reliance on mediated information creates vulnerability to competing climate change frames put forth by interest groups (Weber & Stern, 2011), and suggests that the potential influence of such groups should be examined.
No matter how climate change is framed — no matter how sunny or doleful the vision — it's what happens off the screen, and off the page, that will decide whether the planet remains habitable.
Over the summer, we set a couple of dozen creative students the task of describing the risk from climate change, as framed in the most recent IPCC and MIT reports.
Our response will define our future – UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon at the UN Climate Summit, New York, 23 November 2014 True, but there's a danger in talking about responses to climate change: it frames climate change as something out there that's just 'happening'happening
First, climate change as frame of action to reduce human impacts on the environment has a long tradition.
The findings also imply that the effectiveness of particular climate change impact frames will vary from one state to another depending on a state's partisan leanings.
Finally - and hardly surprisingly - there is some evidence that climate change policies are framed as 'need-based' issues [30], in particular framed as a means to lower energy consumption costs (for both municipalities themselves and local residents, especially the poor), in the case of climate change mitigation policy.
Climate change is often framed as a crisis for the human race as a whole.
