Talking Climate

How to begin a new conversation with the centre-right about climate change: values, frames and narratives

Could warning labels on gas/petrol pumps help make the link between fossil fuel use and climate change more explicit?

If our carbon habit is an addiction, beating it will be harder than quitting smoking.

How can climate change be better communicated to citizens with centre-right values?

With a surge in votes for the UKIP party - which is strongly sceptical about climate change - at the recent UK local elections, is the hard-won cross party consensus on climate change under threat?

Dr Rachel Howell describes some findings from her new research showing that concerns like altruism are more likely to motivate low-carbon lifestyles than concern about the environment per se.

Framing climate change as a public health risk may be a way of pushing climate change into the mainstream

The public has never been asked about the most basic question of all: why two degrees?

Mobilising cultural practitioners is critical for public engagement with climate change

Experience of extreme flooding seems to act as a trigger for enhanced concern about climate change.

The Common Cause challenged the charity sector to work together - rather than compete - on issues like climate change. Could the corporate sector ever do the same?

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A new study shows why the 'psychological distance' of climate change matters for farmers' perceptions of climate change in California.

Professor Dan Kahan, of Yale University's Cultural Cognition project, offers some answers to the question 'what is the best advice for climate science communicators'?

This week Barack Obama framed climate change as a patriotic, religious responsibility for Americans, while Greenpeace warned of 'carbon bombs'. Are these good ways of talking about climate change?

The Green Deal is being framed as an economic - rather than environmental - initiative. This is a missed opportunity to start a national conversation about climate and energy.

It is morals - not money - that ultimately underlies our attitudes and behaviours. So shouldn't more campaigns reflect this?

Could fiction - at least the literary kind - be just as important as fact for engaging the public on climate change?

What if - despite positive attitudes towards the environment - people unconsciously block out images of climate change they don't want to see?

An economic framing of climate change might seem like a good way to reach voters on the right - but it may cause people to externalise responsibility for climate change, and express higher levels of fatalism.

A short report of a workshop at Oxford University on communicating uncertainty and risk.

George Marshall challenges the received wisdom that extreme weather events will make more people concerned about climate change.

Can grappling with the darker side of human experience help us to tackle climate change?

Changing attitudes to flying would reduce the need for airport capacity.

Under certain circumstances, uncertainty can enhance - not undermine - the effectiveness of a message about climate change