Blog Tag: Emotion
October 29th, 2021 · Climate Impacts, Emotion and Risk
Climate Change Threatens Tropical Coasts’ Ability To Be Self-Sufficient
Dash Dicksion is an avid fisherman and strong swimmer. He lives in Kailua, a town on the windward coast of Oʻahu. He is also fifteen years old, which means that when the pandemic struck and school...
November 26th, 2019 · Behaviors and Actions, Beliefs and Attitudes and Emotion
Attaining Meaningful Outcomes from Conversations on Climate
Talking to those with more moderate stances is a good place to start. Learning from these conversations and building on them can lead to more successful outcomes in the future. We often have...
February 24th, 2019 · Behaviors and Actions, Climate Impacts, Emotion, Health, Knowledge, Risk, Vulnerability and Weather
Climate Change’s Direct Contribution to Worsening Mental Health
Attention to the emotional effects of climate change has previously been focused on people working on the problem. In the last few years, for example, organizations working on climate change have...
December 12th, 2017 · Behaviors and Actions, Climate Impacts, Emotion, International, Policy and Politics and Republicans
The Ascent of the Governed
2017 has proven to be a pivotal year in the global human struggle to adequately reduce emissions from heat-trapping gases that fuel climate change. The human and political aspect of this struggle...
October 24th, 2017 · Beliefs and Attitudes, Emotion, Messaging and Surveys
“An Inconvenient Sequel” Calls for Individual Climate Action
Eleven years after the release of the Oscar-winning climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Al Gore returned with An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. The follow-up...
February 11th, 2017 · Beliefs and Attitudes, Demographics, Emotion, Policy and Politics and Six Americas
Trump, Climate Mobilization, and the Alarmed
This blog post was written by Nathan Lobel, Yale College '17. As those familiar with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication know, our research goes beyond whether people believe that...
November 8th, 2016 · Audiences, Beliefs and Attitudes, Climate Impacts, Emotion, International and Media Studies
Reactions to “Before the Flood” in Taiwanese Media and Public Forums
As a visiting fellow affiliated with the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, I had a chance to watch Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary film Before the Flood a few days before its...
October 27th, 2016 · Audiences, Beliefs and Attitudes, Emotion and Messaging
Trust Issues in the Climate Change Debate (And How Culture Can Help)
This blog post was written by Samuel Cheng, a fourth-year Sociology student from the National University of Singapore. Why aren't the bare scientific facts enough? It can be hard to truly...