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DOI	10.1007/s10584-019-02463-0
	Climate change communicators’ carbon footprints affect their audience’s policy support
	Attari S.Z.; Krantz D.H.; Weber E.U.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0165-0009
英文摘要	Global warming is caused mainly by CO2 emission from burning fossil fuels and is beginning to have large negative impacts on human well-being and ecosystems (IPCC 2014; IPCC 2018). Policies that mitigate CO2 emissions will require public support. Here, we examine how support for several possible decarbonization policies varies as a function of the personal carbon footprint of a researcher who advocates the policy. We find that people are more likely to support policies if the advocate for these policies has a low carbon footprint. Replicating our prior work, we find that the communicators’ carbon footprint massively affect their credibility and intentions of their audience to conserve energy (Attari, Krantz and Weber 2016). Our new finding is that their carbon footprint also affects audience support for public policies advocated by the communicator. In a second study, we show that the negative effects of a large carbon footprint on credibility are greatly reduced if the communicator reforms their behavior by reducing their personal carbon footprints. The implications of these results are stark: effective communication of climate science and advocacy of both individual behavior change and public policy interventions are greatly helped when advocates lead the way by reducing their own carbon footprint. © 2019, Springer Nature B.V.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Behavioral research; Carbon dioxide; Emission control; Fossil fuels; Global warming; Public policy; Climate science; Conserve energy; Effective communication; Individual behavior; Policy intervention; Policy support; Public support; Support policy; Carbon footprint
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147562
作者单位	O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington, 1315 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, United States; Department of Psychology & Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Columbia University, 406 Schermerhorn Hall – MC 5501, 1190 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, United States; Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Woodrow Wilson School, and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Attari S.Z.,Krantz D.H.,Weber E.U.. Climate change communicators’ carbon footprints affect their audience’s policy support[J],2019.
APA	Attari S.Z.,Krantz D.H.,&Weber E.U..(2019).Climate change communicators’ carbon footprints affect their audience’s policy support.Climatic Change.
MLA	Attari S.Z.,et al."Climate change communicators’ carbon footprints affect their audience’s policy support".Climatic Change (2019).