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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102286
	The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets
	Mumenthaler C.; Renaud O.; Gava R.; Brosch T.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	9593780
卷号	69
英文摘要	Variability in local weather patterns has long been suggested as a major barrier impeding laypeople from recognizing long-term climate trends. However, as humans are able to detect and interpret rapid signal fluctuations, it seems psychologically plausible to assume that they are able to integrate short-term variations of weather variables into their mental representations of climate change. Using a combined analysis of social media and weather station data, here we investigated the impact of the short-term volatility of local temperature on climate change-related tweets from 2014 to 2017. We found a nonlinear hockey stick relationship between weekly temperature volatility and climate change-related tweets, a volatility rise of 1 °C corresponds to an 82% increase in climate change tweets when volatility is above 3.5 °C. This volatility effect was observed from 2016 onwards, suggesting a recent change in people's mental representations of climate change. This study provides empirical evidence illustrating that in the public mind, climate change may not be represented as a mere temperature increase any more, but as a disruption of the climate system in general. © 2021 The Author(s)
关键词	Climate change attention Mental representation Social media Temperature volatility
英文关键词	air temperature; climate change; empirical analysis; nonlinearity; psychology; regional climate; social media; trend analysis
语种	英语
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205527
作者单位	Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Information Sciences, Geneva School of Business Administration, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western, Switzerland; School of Economics and Political Science, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mumenthaler C.,Renaud O.,Gava R.,et al. The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets[J],2021,69.
APA	Mumenthaler C.,Renaud O.,Gava R.,&Brosch T..(2021).The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets.Global Environmental Change,69.
MLA	Mumenthaler C.,et al."The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets".Global Environmental Change 69(2021).