Communicating Climate Change
The Path Forward
Susanna Priest 2016 PSU Lib QC902.9.P5 2016
linkedIn says Corvallis OR
- Book page .iv says Camano Island, Washington (between Whidbey Island and mainland) ???
- prior reader/vandal marked many pages with ink
My take: Sadly, this book does not describe a "path forward", which I interpret as finding effective ways to describe the problem using methods designed and tested to educate and change the minds of climate critics. For some, this can be words framed for skeptical minds. For others, expanding the experience frame of critics who must "see it to believe it". Visualizing infrared? Intuitively satisfying descriptions of heat trapping? I don't have know (yet), but I would expect trained communicators to have these skills and know many techniques that work well with many personality types. Certainly the advertising industry knows how to "sell" dangerous habits to people who should know better.
- p19 note references "Dewey 1997", actually
George Gerbner 1976 Living With Television: The Violence Profile suggests over-estimation of the prevalence of violence (encouraged more violence.
reference by Shanahan M 2007 Talking About a Revolution: Climate Change and the Media
p50 Paul Slovic Science 1987 April 17 pp 280-285 paywall, typed manuscript
p53 Christopher P. Borick, Barry G. Rabe "A Reason to Believe: Examining the Factors that Determine Individual Views on Global Warming" 2010 July 15 paywall
- "denier" beliefs can be effectively challenged by actual evidence
p63 Risk information seeking and processing model: A meta-analysis ZJ Yang, AM Aloe, TH Feeley - Journal of Communication, 2014
p86 Dearing, J.W. 1995 Newspaper Coverage of Maverick Science: Creating Controversy Through Balancing
- p86 Goodell, R. The Visible Scientists 1997 book PSU Q175.52 .U5 G66
p107 Proposed model of the relationship of risk information seeking and processing to the development of preventive behaviors Griffith 1999
- p133 2016 presidential election "and from the far right, a businessman described by some commentators as a neofascist"
What is Fascism? George Orwell 1944
p135 Can Strategic and Democratic Goals Coexist ... Susanna Priest 2013, U. Washington
p135 Sheepfarming after Chernobyl: A Case Study in Communicating Scientific Information Bryan Wynne 1989 paywall
p157 Up and down with ecology: The "issue-attention cycle" Anthony Downs 1972, Public Interest
p157 McCombs and Shaw 2017 The Agenda-Setting function of mass media