THE ROLE OF NURSES IN ADDRESSING HEALTH EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND WILDFIRES

Climate change is a politically-polarised issue, with conservatives less likely than liberals to perceive it as human-caused and consequential. Furthermore, they are less likely to support mitigation and adaptation policies needed to reduce its impacts. This study aimed to examine whether John Oliver’s “A Mathematically Representative Climate Change Debate” clip on his program Last Week Tonight polarised or depolarised a politically-diverse audience on climate policy support and behavioural intentions. One hundred and fifty-nine participants, recruited via Amazon MTurk (94 female, 64 male, one gender unspecified, Mage = 51.07, SDage = 16.35), were presented with either John Oliver’s climate change consensus clip, or a humorous video unrelated to climate change. Although the climate change consensus clip did not reduce polarisation (or increase it) relative to a control on mitigation policy support, it resulted in hyperpolarisation on support for adaptation policies and increased climate action intentions among liberals but not conservatives.

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Role of baroclinic wave amplitude and transport variation in climate change. Final report

10.2172/582181 ◽

1998 ◽

Author(s):

B.F. Farrell

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Wave Amplitude ◽

Final Report ◽

Baroclinic Wave

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Development as Self-Interest

10.1093/oso/9780190851828.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Sarah Blodgett Bermeo

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Foreign Aid ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Trade Agreements ◽

Self Interest ◽

Adaptation And Mitigation

This chapter introduces the role of development as a self-interested policy pursued by industrialized states in an increasingly connected world. As such, it is differentiated from traditional geopolitical accounts of interactions between industrialized and developing states as well as from assertions that the increased focus on development stems from altruistic motivations. The concept of targeted development—pursuing development abroad when and where it serves the interests of the policymaking states—is introduced and defined. The issue areas covered in the book—foreign aid, trade agreements between industrialized and developing countries, and finance for climate change adaptation and mitigation—are introduced. The preference for bilateral, rather than multilateral, action is discussed.

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Individualist–Collectivist Differences in Climate Change Inaction: The Role of Perceived Intractability

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00187 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Peng Xiang ◽

Haibo Zhang ◽

Liuna Geng ◽

Kexin Zhou ◽

Yuping Wu

Keyword(s):

Climate Change

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Carbon monoxide-triggered health effects: the important role of the inflammasome and its possible crosstalk with autophagy and exosomes

Archives of Toxicology ◽

10.1007/s00204-021-02976-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 95 (4) ◽

pp. 1141-1159

Author(s):

Rong-Jane Chen ◽

Yu-Hsuan Lee ◽

Tzu-Hao Chen ◽

Yu-Ying Chen ◽

Ya-Ling Yeh ◽

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Keyword(s):

Carbon Monoxide ◽

Health Effects

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Fostering climate change consensus: The role of intimacy in group discussions

Public Understanding of Science ◽

10.1177/09636625211020661 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 096366252110206

Author(s):

Lyn M. van Swol ◽

Emma Frances Bloomfield ◽

Chen-Ting Chang ◽

Stephanie Willes

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Group Consensus ◽

Group Discussions ◽

Self Disclosure ◽

Group Attraction ◽

Climate Change Information ◽

To Come ◽

Collective Engagement

This study examined if creating intimacy in a group discussion is more effective toward reaching consensus about climate change than a focus on information. Participants were randomly assigned to either a group that spent the first part of an online discussion engaging in self-disclosure and focusing on shared values (intimacy condition) or discussing information from an article about climate change (information condition). Afterward, all groups were given the same instructions to try to come to group consensus on their opinions about climate change. Participants in the intimacy condition had higher ratings of social cohesion, group attraction, task interdependence, and collective engagement and lower ratings of ostracism than the information condition. Intimacy groups were more likely to reach consensus, with ostracism and the emotional tone of discussion mediating this effect. Participants were more likely to change their opinion to reflect that climate change is real in the intimacy than information condition.

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