The Green Elephant

Podcast 23

How to Overcome Awkward Climate and Eco-Ethical Social Dilemmas

Social interactions impact climate change predictions, U of G study revealsUsing a new model that couples human behaviour to climate systems, researchers discovered including social processes can alter climate change predictions, a finding that may help reduce global warming. Social processes are often neglected in climate models. But this study found social learning about mitigation strategies can influence social norms in ways that ultimately affect climate outcomes. In fact, the new model found social variables are far more important than geophysical factors.

Climate Change: The Psychological ImpactPsychological scientists are studying how we're all weathering a warming planet.

New global warming model highlights strong impact of social learningA new climate modeling approach suggests that social processes strongly affect global warming predictions, and mitigation efforts should account for this influence.

5 Reasons Why Climate Change Is A Social Issue, Not Just An Environmental OneMany communities will be forced to move as they are exposed to rising sea levels, extreme drought that puts strain on resources, or even extreme rainfall...

The Useful Discomfort of Critical Climate Social ScienceRecent years have seen a new genre of journalism that reports on the emotional lives of climate scientists. Every day of their professional lives is given over to documenting extinctions,...

To take on climate change, we need to change our vocabularyWhen we talk about saving the planet, we employ the narrative of war. Does it only deepen our divisions?

Why Greta Makes Adults UncomfortableEspecially in private, she sounds a lot like … a teenager.

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Planet Friendly Social Interactions Can Help Slow Climate Change, Claims Study

Comedy can help you talk about climate change » Yale Climate ConnectionsA guide to bringing up the topic without turning into Debbie Downer

How embracing 'awkward' can spark breakthrough on climate problemsSponsored content: 'Learning lab' process yields fresh perspectives on practical climate concerns in nine African cities

The climate crisis has arrived – so stop feeling guilty and start imagining your futureMelting ice caps, burning forests – the climate disaster future is increasingly the present.

What would Jesus do? Talking with evangelicals about climate changeAs part of our new column about the American south and climate change, we go towards Christians who have been resistant to ideas of environmental stewardship - perhaps it’s a message they need to hear in their own terms

The Environment and Social Media

When social media meets climate changeUnderstanding online global warming engagement through the prism of social science studies

Social Media Helping People Understand Climate Change Globally - SocialMedia.bizIn today’s technologically advancing world, social media is transforming the way we share news and information. More than 300 million people spend at least 5 hours every day on different social networking platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Youtube and Instagram....

How media around the world frame climate change news: Rich countries politicize issue, while poor countries present climate change as international concernResearchers analyzed thousands of climate change articles from 45 countries and territories around the world to determine how they frame the issue, and differences were revealed mostly by the wealth of the nation.

Can Social Media Save Our Planet From Climate Change?The case for using social media to communicate about and raise awareness of climate change

The fight against climate change on social media | Social Publi BlogActivists have always played a very important role through traditional media in the fight against climate change. Nowadays, social networks are in this

Social Media and Public Polarization over Climate Change in the United States

How Our Social Media Hive Can Shake Up Climate ChangeWith only 10 years to avert a climate crisis, every elected official that comes into power from now on has *literally* no choice but to be a climate leader or we face nothing but environmental crises in the years to come. This is one of the reasons why we want Minnesota to be the …

15 youth climate activists you should be following on social media | Earth Day NetworkBy Isabel Schnaidt and Inma Galvez-Shorts Around the world, young people are mobilizing by the hundreds of thousands to demand greater action on climate change. Driven by the understanding that the action that leaders take — or do not take — in the next decade will determine life and livelihoods for generations to come, these... Read more »

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