Understanding Climate Projections
These graphs show future global temperatures from a very low GHG emissions scenario to a very high GHG emissions scenario.
What are climate projections?
What is Seven?
Dominant frames for this issue include uncertainty, disaster, and melting ice.
What is climate change?
"______washing" refers to companies that develop a false identity of environmental responsibility.
What is Greenwashing?
It brings more voices into the debate and facilitates new forms of policy and politics inspired by climate change in the digital world.
What is social media?
Along with past and current data, they form the basis for educated guesses of future conditions.
What are assumptions?
This term refers to the disproportionate impacts of climate change on the groups that are least responsible.
What is Climate Injustice?
Examples are newspapers, magazines, television, and radio.
What are traditional news media?
This form of climate change denial is often politically or economically motivated.
What is Strategic Denial?
This tool is regarded as highly informational, especially for popular science and for communicating complex subjects to newer audiences.
What is YouTube?
These huge computer programs predict future climate for a region or the whole planet.
What are mathematical climate models?
This concept refers to the way that environmental policies, access and decisions disproportionately disadvantage and impact racialized people.
What is Environmental Racism?
These are people who are engaged in and influence public understanding of an issue
What are issue publics?
This advertising campaign shifted the responsibility of carbon emissions from companies to the individual, popularizing this new term for individual carbon use.
What is "Carbon Footprint"?
It was the first environmental documentary aired on the BBC, presented by Sir David Attenborough in 2006, and full of disinformation.
What is "The Truth About Climate Change"?
This is a gradual change in what we see as normal due to the tendency to only consider the recent past or conditions within our lifetime.
What are shifting baselines?
This idea speaks to making amends for the racial injustice that has been foundational to the climate crisis.
What is Climate Reparations?
Issue publics use this technique to make some aspects of an issue more salient and downplay other aspects.
What is framing?
Those on either side of the climate change debate are often referred to as being a part of one of these two groups.
What is Alarmists and Deniers?
This is where users construct their online communication in a way that allows them to encounter positions that are mostly in line with their pre-existing positions.
What are echo chambers?
These can be used to estimate atmospheric CO2 concentrations back in time.
What are ice rods or core samples?
"________&________ is also a diplomatically negotiated euphemism for something we’re not allowed to talk about: ‘liability and compensation’” (Huq, 2023: 159).
What is "Loss" and "Damages"?
Examples are whether you think climate change is human-caused, whether you are worried about it, and whether you think you will be harmed by climate change.
What are climate change attitudes?
This 2010 documentary explored the way that lobbyists (tobacco, fossil fuels, sugar, etc.) manufacture confusion about scientific facts that would impact profit.
What is "Merchants of Doubt"?
This concept helps explain the differences in the levels of concern about climate change and creates segmentation in populations through media.
What is political polarization?