Governments around the world need to cut emissions. However, there is not a simple template to use and, most importantly, different initiatives will not attract the same level of public support. For that reason, we need to consider how governments can most effective cut emissions with the support of the public. In a new report […]
Tag: climate change
The political implications of climate change
What are the political implications of climate change? I have been looking into a few studies lately on the implications of climate change for societies. In brief, there is substantial evidence that climate change matter for economic development, political instability, climate migrants, public health, conflict, etc. Nerini et al. (2019) provide a great overview on […]
Visualizing climate change with stripes
Climate change is abstract. We do not personally experience climate change in our day-to-day activities (although cimate change is detectable from any single day of weather at global scale, cf. Sippel 2020), and if we are to understand climate change, data – and in particular data visualisation – is crucial. I have recently been reading […]
Global risks, climate change and COVID-19
On 15 January 2020, the World Economic Forum released The Global Risks Report 2020. The report was published before we talked about COVID-19 which makes it an even more interesting read. There are a lot of risks in the world. Weapons of mass destruction, food crises, natural disasters, climate change, data fraud, unemployment, asset bubbles […]
The Effect of Question Wording: Climate Edition
It is well known that the question wording in a survey may influence the respondents answer. Take as an example the pioneer study (pdf) on framing effects by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, published in Science, which shows that presenting the same action with different words, in this case whether people will be saved or […]