scholarly journals Is Twitter Indicating a Change in MP’s Views on Climate Change?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10334
Author(s):  
Rhian Ebrey ◽  
Stephen Hall ◽  
Rebecca Willis
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Relative Impact ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Special Report ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Government Action ◽  
Members Of Parliament

Following the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1.5 °C Special Report in October 2018, there has been a surge in public concern about climate change and demands for greater government action. We analyse the discourse of Members of Parliament (MPs) on climate change on Twitter to examine the extent to which these recent public climate-related events have influenced political agenda-setting. We argue that these events have had two, linked, effects: increased political discourse on climate change, and an increasing use of ‘urgent’ climate language. However, the language style used between political parties differs. Additionally, while the youth strikes and Greta Thunberg, who initiated these strikes, appear to have the greatest influence on MPs’ discourse, the overall relative impact is low, with responses predominately from left- and centrist-political parties. This indicates a clear difference between parties. However, Twitter may not be a suitable platform for investigating Conservative discourse. Further work to explore agenda-setting on Conservative policymaking is required.

Media political parallelism and political agenda setting in Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-87
Author(s):  
Antonella Seddone
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Media And Politics ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Longitudinal Dataset

Abstract The issue of whether and how political parallelism could play a role in the agendadynamics between media and politics is relevant. Yet, this issue has been exploredonly rarely and the findings are unclear. Using Italy as an illustration, this studyinvestigates the interactions between parallel media and the political agenda between2006 and 2011. Based on the analysis of a longitudinal dataset, this investigation aimsto assess whether and to what extent parallel media coverage may have affected thepolitical agenda concerning two policy issues: (i) reform of the labor market and (ii) theaccess of regular migrants to Italian citizenship. Specifically, the media’s attention tothese two policy issues will be analyzed based on the parliamentary questions (PQs)addressed by members of Parliament (MPs).

Biophysical climate effects of changing forest cover across scales

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gensuo Jia
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Model Simulation ◽  
Forest Conversion ◽  
Momentum Exchange ◽  
Special Report ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Climate Effects ◽  
Climate Interactions

<p>Changes of forest cover regulate climate system directly through the alteration of water vapor, energy, and momentum exchange between land surface and the atmosphere. These land-based biophysical effects vary with locations and seasons and cause regional cooling or warming, which enhances or diminishes the climatic benefits of forest carbon drawdown in different cases. Biophysical climate effects of forest conversion exhibit the largest uncertainty in the mid-latitudes. The sign and magnitude of biophysical effect in temperate zones are still under hot debate. Over the past two decades, most of our understandings on how forest affects climate through biophysical processes came from sensitivity analysis of climate modeling, by comparing paired model simulations of forest and short vegetation covers. However, much remains unknown in the real world due to the complicated process and uncertainty in magnitude, especially in the temperate bioclimate regions. Here we reviewed complex results and debates from model simulation, field measurements, and satellite observation, and then applied satellite-based observation to investigate the biophysical climate response to potential forest conversion in temperate regions, especially on the spatial and temporal patterns and underlying mechanisms. We also interpret some key findings on land-climate interactions from recent IPCC special report on climate change and land (SRCCL).</p><p>Readings:</p><p><strong>Jia, G.</strong>, E. Shevliakova, P. Artaxo, et al. (2019): Land-climate interactions, <em>in Skea J. et al. (eds.)</em> IPCC Special report on climate change and land. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC, Geneva (in press) https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/chapter-2/</p><p>Ma, W., <strong>G. Jia</strong>, and A. Zhang (2017): Multiple satellite-based analysis reveals complex climate effects of temperate forests and related energy budget, 
J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, 3806–3820, doi:10.1002/2016JD026278</p><p>Web: green.tea.ac.cn</p>

scholarly journals GLOBAL WARMING OF 1.5°С: A SPECIAL REPORT OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. Gladilshchikova ◽  
◽  
T.M. Dmitrieva ◽  
S.M. Semenov ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Special Report ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel

scholarly journals Controversy around climate change reports: a case study of Twitter responses to the 2019 IPCC report on land

2021 ◽  
Vol 167 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Sanford ◽  
James Painter ◽  
Taha Yasseri ◽  
Jamie Lorimer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Minor Element ◽  
Meat Consumption ◽  
Special Report ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Ipcc Report

AbstractIn August 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), which generated extensive societal debate and interest in mainstream and social media. Using computational and conceptual text analysis, we examined more than 6,000 English-language posts on Twitter to establish the relative presence of different topics. Then, we assessed their levels of toxicity and sentiment polarity as an indication of contention and controversy. We find first that meat consumption and dietary options became one of the most discussed issues on Twitter in response to the IPCC report, even though it was a relatively minor element of the report; second, this new issue of controversy (meat and diet) had similar, high levels of toxicity to strongly contentious issues in previous IPCC reports (skepticism about climate science and the credibility of the IPCC). We suggest that this is in part a reflection of increasingly polarized narratives about meat and diet found in other areas of public discussion and of a movement away from criticism of climate science towards criticism of climate solutions. Finally, we discuss the possible implications of these findings for the work of the IPCC in anticipating responses to its reports and responding to them effectively.

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